The Voucher Top 10 -- Cliff's Notes
Here are the Worst 10 Stats About Ohio's Voucher Explosion
OK — many of you watched the full podcast yesterday. My Letterman-style top 10 WORST datapoints about Ohio’s private school voucher scam:
But for those of you who didn't get through it (yes, it was long), I am so eager to have you watch the Top 10, I’ve clipped out a quick Cliff’s Notes version so you can absorb them all.
This will take a lot less time, and you’ll get the high points:
The Top 10 WORST Datapoints about Ohio’s Current Voucher Explosion…
Drum roll……..
#10: $742 million — the estimated amount of money going to all EdChoice vouchers this school year – >10x the amount sent my last year in the legislature
#9: $740 million – the amount of money the state has failed to fund for its new school funding system
#8: 0% -- the amount of additional state revenue going to students in public schools since 1997, adjusted for inflation
#7: 1.13 million – the number of Ohio’s 1.57 million public school students receiving less state aid than a private high school parent – more than 8 in 10 students
#6: More new EdChoice Expansion vouchers are going to parents making more than $150,000 a year than are making less than $120,000 a year.
#5: 90% -- the percentage of parents getting new EdChoice Expansion vouchers this year who are White – the average in the 236 districts that account for 9 in 10 vouchers is 72%
#4: 120% -- the greater likelihood that students taking vouchers are white compared with the racial makeup of the 31 districts that account for 9 in 10 EdChoice vouchers.
#3: 12.1% -- the average test score drop for each year a student takes a voucher
How could this be? That’s what I asked! Here’s Steve’s answer..
#2: 88%– how often vouchers go to parents who send their kids to private schools with lower test scores than their resident public schools
#1: $0 – the amount of money the state has spent auditing the $5 billion in taxpayer money that’s been spent on Vouchers since 1997
And what would Steve do about this? His answer:
So that’s the top 10. Terrible.
Remember, other states with unrestricted universal vouchers will display the same trends. They are all being designed the same way.
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