School choice continues to expand across the county. Earlier this week, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed legislation to broaden the Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program to include the children of active military personnel. The law also makes students who attend failing public schools or school districts or those who have opted out of the state foster care system eligible for ESA. Under the original legislation, only special needs students were only eligible for ESA.
Parents who choose to withdraw their children from a public school district or charter district can receive up to 90 percent of state funding deposited in an ESA. Parents can use the funding for private school tuition, online courses , tutoring services, textbooks and even college expenses. ESA has no income requirements for families. According to the Arizona Department of Education, the average amount for students approved for the scholarship was $13,000.
Last year North Carolina General Assembly approved legislation to allow parents to claim a tax credit of up to $6,000 on the educational expenses of special needs students. The Department of Public Instruction estimates that 120,000 students will be eligible for the credit.
And guess what in a few years our per pupil costs will skyrocket even though we are educating fewer students- privitizing results in increased costs and lessened quality in education. K12 which is starting a virtual charter in NC(with GOP support of course) and it has an awful track record of costing states millions in fraud by claiming students they did not have and outsourcing grading to INDIA… but hey they give big to the GOP so by all means ignore facts and spread some more info. FYI look up the Stanford study on charters AZ has some of the poorest performing charters in the nation… public schools do better but why listen to facts when popeaganda will do.
Darn right, randwrong..I mean redmakesncblue…I mean rightiswrong….or whatever you are calling yourself today.
Anyway, people like us are all smart enough to know that in a free society parents should be told where to send their children to school. Freedom means obedience to political power, as I and “localyokel” always say.
Just turn over your children to politicians and bureaucrats and rest easy.
Look at the great results the government schools have achieved the last several years!
Listen to “localyokel” and obey your masters! In fact, government should provide all goods and services.
interesting article bully pulpit puppet… seems your boys got caught playing the game down in Miami with oh yeah lobbyist for the charters… didn’t report it either wonder who they slept with?? funny how grad, rates are up in NC and k-12 spending per pupil in the US is ranked 18th not 1st as you repeatedly and incorrectly report… and I am not scared of a two bit popeagandist like you… far from it!! I thumb my nose in your general direction and call your reporting poop! power to the people peon!!
Plus Brian Balfour you just busted yourself posting on here under an assumed name because everyone in NC knows this site is full of hacks- saw your post supporting the clueless Susan too…do you post all the favorable comments or doesw the staff take turns? how very, very amusing… I will be back to play with you again soon.
yes – the cat always returns to bat away at the string – all for the entertainment of the one holding the string.
That’s right, localyokel.
Only a horrible person would get caught cheating on his spouse.
– John Edwards