More parents overwhelmingly chose school choice in 2022 after expressing frustration with lockdown policies, school boards and mandates. The majority of parents surveyed in a major study said they wanted other options for their children’s education other than the public school districts their children were zoned to attend.
Legislator reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision allowing public funds to go to religious schools is very likely to trigger damaging proposals in the coming 2023 legislative session.
When this legislature returns to Montpelier in January, Vermont’s century-and-a-half-year-old, highly successful experience with school choice will be under threat of elimination.
Private schools have made the news as an alternative to public schools, but increasing numbers of Vermont parents find homeschools are an attractive additional option.
New Hampshire is facing a lawsuit from a teachers’ union over a new program that diverts public dollars for children to attend private schools and homeschooling.
Utah, New Hampshire and South Carolina are pushing for more expansive school choice legislation, while states such as Arizona and Florida have already implemented programs that provide vouchers to students outside of the public school system.
Democrats are constantly trying to infringe on certain rights entirely, or at the very least limit the choices we have to exercise them. In the session ahead we can likely expect an attack on school choice.
It took years of legal fights, and a related ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, but parties in Vermont have settled two cases involving school tuition and religious discrimination.
Now it’s up to Arizona Secretary of State Kathy Hobbs to unfreeze the program. She has 20 business days to do so. She’s also the Democratic candidate for governor and her education platform promises “to oppose the universal expansion of school vouchers.”
Last year the Michigan Legislature approved two strong school choice bills that established a Michigan Student Opportunity Scholarship (SOS) program. Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer vetoed them, but the state constitution allows the Legislature to override a governor’s veto.
Two recent federal district court case rulings may have opened the way for expanded sex-based Title IX nondiscrimination requirements on tax-exempt independent schools.
Progressives seek to collect taxes from Vermonters to support this Constitution-hating, government-established cult in public schools, while undermining efforts to shield children from its harmful host of horrors.