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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Thank you for this objective view of state funds being shuffled from public education into the hands of people that have no legal reason to either be accountable for it or perform any work for any reason to receive it. Another fleecing of America story.
You have to love American ingenuity: Become a businessman. Go to any government in America and sign up for free money with no reason to ever do anything for it. Get as much as you want and spend it on yourself because there is no accountability for public funding of businesses. This really works best for white, Christian, racist men but can actually work for anyone. And the more you take, the more you can take because you can use some of that taxpayer funding to pay politicians to make sure you are preselected for more.
How the hell did it come to this? It may have always been this way but the scale of today’s activities is just too bloody much.
How the hell is public funding of private or religious schools for the Public good?????