Proposed School Voucher: “Family Empowerment Scholarship” (defunds public schools)
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Originally Posted by “Jackie Kelly”
A proposed school voucher called the “Family Empowerment Scholarship” is going to be voted on in the Florida Senate this spring. It would allow families to put their children in private schools, using tax dollars to pay for it.
Sarasota School Board Chair Jane Goodwin is against it because the Sarasota School District has already seen a $30 million annual funding decrease for the past three years. Instead of taking away money from public schools, the government should focus on funding them.
Goodwin explained that if taxpayer money is going to be spent on private schools, then private schools should be held to the same standards. "There's no oversight as to the staff's background. Whether they have a degree, whether they have a teaching degree. What they teach…"
Goodwin said that “education is a complex business. We have made it so complex that people outside can’t understand it. And what’s happening now is that brand new legislatures that go to Tallahassee don’t understand it, so they vote for whatever somebody tells them to do. And then when I sit down and talk to them, they say [in genuine surprise], ‘Oh, does that really happen?'”
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