The Blob is banking on the idea that Vermonters would rather eliminate all school choice in Vermont than allow some — any — parents to choose to send their kids to a religious school with taxpayer dollars.
Vermont was the first state in the country to offer school choice to students when it created the town tuitioning program in the 1890s. However, there are a number of misconceptions about what it is, how much it costs, and how it functions.
The Reason foundation’s Christian Barnard published an encouraging story on school choice advances in six states. When will Vermont ever appear on such a list?
I strongly suggest that parents get their children out of the public government schools. These schools have become a black box of the unknown and allow staff to keep secrets and openly lie to parents.
“The Left is losing control over the minds of other peoples’ children, and they can’t handle it,” Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, said in a written statement.
Instead of the educational establishment imposing its racist ideology on Black kids, parents should have the power to determine how their kids are educated, through school choice determining what education is best for kids.
H.483 would prevent approved independent schools from having mandatory interviews, campus visits or academic entrance exams, and it would bar those schools from reviewing students’ academic histories or considering their ability to pay as part of the admissions process.
Lawmakers in the Senate Education Committee on Tuesday discussed a bill that pertains to the requirements independent schools may need to meet to continue receiving taxpayer money.
In response to Carson v. Makin, Maine lawmakers passed legislation that limited the ability for religious schools to gain an exemption from certain nondiscrimination rules while participating in the school choice tuitioning program, prompting a lawsuit on behalf of Bangor Christian School on Tuesday.
Sources at the Vermont State House say the vote on H.483, restricting public school tuition to private schools, has been delayed until at least next Wednesday. It is uncertain why voting on this bill, pushed strongly by a coalition of public school education groups, has been postponed after being placed on the House agenda this week.
On Friday the House Committee on Education passed a bill by a 7-4-1 vote that could make it more challenging for independent schools to receive public support.
Houser cited data reporting that at least 587 kids are restrained or secluded each year in our public schools, and these incidents are likely underreported. Disproportionately, the victims of these practices are children with disabilities and children of color.