All Articles On School Choice From Homeschooling Backgrounder
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Key Articles on School Choice
Key Articles On School Choice From Homeschooling Backgrounder
Find the top articles on School Choice here. These contain essential information for homeschool leaders, parents, and policymakers on the issue of School Choice.
Critiques of Effectiveness
School Choice: A Failing Strategy
“The goals of the [School Choice] strategy are to 1) allow ordinary people to choose the type of education that is best for their children, and 2) stop the public school establishment from indoctrinating students in political ideology. School Choice is failing on both counts.“School Choice: Expensive, Ineffective, Damaging, With Resource Restrictions And Parent Dissatisfaction
“There are School Choice problems becoming apparent as flows of government money enter the private school system.“School Choice Tax Credits Will Fail For The Same Reasons ESAs Are Failing
“After pushing through new ESA laws in various states, Advocates are now discovering some logical consequences stemming from taking government money.“Milton Friedman’s Unfortunate Assumption About School Choice
“Milton Friedman’s vision of applying free market principles to schools is the basis of today’s School Choice movement. Unfortunately, his analysis of funding parent education choices with government money is not consistent with today’s political realities.“Regulation
Why ‘School Choice’ Laws Cannot Protect Homeschoolers From Regulation
“The problem is that no matter how many categories one might add, there would always be additional space allowing restrictive regulations to bypass those categories. It is not feasible to enumerate all possible variations.“
How ‘School Choice’ Undermines Homeschooling Freedom
“Government funds come with strings attached. And “just don’t take the money” does not work for homeschoolers.”
Responding to a Misleading Study on Vouchers and Homeschool Regulations
Critiques a study on vouchers, highlighting how Oklahoma’s 2023 tax-credit program led to proposed regulations (e.g., background checks) affecting all homeschoolers.
Has School Choice Hurt Any Homeschoolers To Date?
“The short answer is “No.” A more perceptive answer is “No, because homeschoolers have erected barriers against harm from existing School Choice programs.” It is not an accident that homeschoolers have remained safe.”
Financial Impacts
Universal School Choice Usually Costs Taxpayers More, Not Less
“The problem is that under Universal School Choice Education Savings Account (ESA) and universal voucher programs, the taxpayer ends up funding additional private school students who were already in a private school or who would have been anyway without the ESA money.“
School Choice: Tipping Point
“School Choice advocates successfully passed their bills in 2023. Government money is now flowing to private schools. Ironically, this success could carry within it the seeds of the destruction of the School Choice movement.“
The Heritage Foundation’s Inattentive Claim That School Choice Policies Do Not Raise Private School Tuition
“The new government money inflow has substantially changed the underlying forces on private schools.”
School Choice: Who Benefits?
“School Choice means giving government money to pay for the education of students outside of the public schools. But who are the primary beneficiaries of government funding of private education?”
Debates
Two Counterarguments Against Homeschooler Concerns About School Choice
“The homeschooling community’s goal is freedom from government control. School Choice is about government funding and ends up inviting regulation. The two are not compatible.”
Two School Choice Advocacy Logical Fallacies
“In actual fact, homeschoolers do not oppose all ESA bills. We only say ‘no’ to bills that leave us open to harm even if we reject ESA money.”
Two Types of Private Education Under School Choice
“Take the money vs. Don’t take the money has replaced Private School vs. Homeschool as the most important factor in Private Education.”
School Choice: Can You Spot The Difference?
Points out the similarity between School Choice and other proposed universal benefits.