{"id":6207,"date":"2023-07-22T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/leadership\/the-obstacles-to-more-school-vouchers-in-pennsylvania\/"},"modified":"2023-07-22T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T16:55:11","slug":"the-obstacles-to-more-school-vouchers-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/?p=6207","title":{"rendered":"The Obstacles To More School Vouchers In Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In a recent Broad and Liberty (\u201dthought-provoking and shareable ideas for free thinkers in Greater Philadelphia and beyond\u201d) post, Guy Ciarrocchi argues that opponents of the Pennsylvania\u2019s newest school voucher proposal are simply afraid that it will work.<\/p>\n<p>Ciarrocchi is a fellow with the right-tilted Commonwealth Foundation, which has long pushed for school vouchers in Pennsylvania. He was also executive director of the PA Coalition of Public Charter Schools (2009-2011). So his position on vouchers is not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a good representative of the frustration conservatives are feeling over Governor Josh Shapiro\u2019s declaration that he will scrap the voucher item in the budget, despite pressure from many conservatives, who really thought they had a shot this time. An entire dark money organization, Commonwealth Action, has popped up just to continue pressure on Shapiro to okay vouchers.<\/p>\n<p>Ciarrocchi sums up the standard argument, which is that public school supporters oppose vouchers because they\u2019re afraid of them, and there is some truth to that in the same way that one might be afraid that building a warming fire in the middle of your living room will burn down the house (the pro-voucher counterargument is that if you built a better house, you wouldn\u2019t have to worry about fire).<\/p>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"inread\" progressive=\"\" ad-id=\"article-0-inread\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\"><\/fbs-ad><\/p>\n<p>But there are more issues at play here.<\/p>\n<p>One is that the vouchers simply won\u2019t deliver on what their supporters promise.<\/p>\n<p>If policy makers are truly worried about rescuing students from \u201cfailing\u201d schools, they should address other barriers to such escape, most notably the high cost of private school tuition and the selectivity of those schools, neither of which is addressed by the proposed voucher system. Private schools under this proposed system would still be free to accept or reject students as they wish, and charge whatever tuition they deem appropriate, no mater how much that cost exceeds the voucher amount. Both of these are appropriate positions for a private business, but they also represent large obstacles to students who wants to \u201cescape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pro-voucher proponents will argue that the market will produce additional private schools that can meet the new demand. But the proposed program includes no means of accountability or oversight to insure that those pop-up schools are any better than the schools the students are escaping.<\/p>\n<p>Nor does the proposal address the issue of those left behind. If the school is so bad that some students must be rescued from it, why are we only rescuing a few, while leaving the rest\u2014the majority\u2014in a school that now has even fewer resources to provide for them.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters argue the new voucher program, carefully designed to meet Governor Shapiro\u2019s requirements, does not take money from public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents point out that the GOP\u2019s Senate budget bill proposes the highest basic funding ever for education in PA, and that is true (though it\u2019s now as much as the governor or the House asked for). But it is also true that the $100 million proposed for the new voucher fund is accompanied by a $125 million cut in Level Up funding, the money being used to try to even up Pennsylvania\u2019s wildly unequal school funding system. The Senate proposal also zeros out the $100 million requested by the governor for mental health block grants at a time when student mental is considered a major issue.<\/p>\n<p>One can argue that what the left hand takes and the right hand gives have nothing to do with each other, but at the end of the day, an additional $100 million in the budget has to come from somewhere, and it will most likely come either from somewhere that affects students or from taxpayers, or both.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the debate over the voucher item in the budget parallels the debate over the bill aimed at cyber charter reform. Rather than simply declaring, \u201cWe believe that maintaining multiple high quality parallel school systems is so important that we are going to raise taxes to do it,\u201d legislators continue a zero sum game that results in those multiple systems and their supporters fighting over the same pot of funds\u2014a pot that the court has already ruled inadequate to operate the single public system that we have.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/petergreene\/2023\/07\/22\/the-obstacles-to-more-school-vouchers-in-pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Broad and Liberty (\u201dthought-provoking and shareable ideas for free thinkers in Greater Philadelphia and beyond\u201d) post, Guy Ciarrocchi argues that opponents of the Pennsylvania\u2019s newest school voucher proposal are simply afraid that it will work. Ciarrocchi is a fellow with the right-tilted Commonwealth Foundation, which has long pushed for school vouchers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leadership"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Obstacles To More School Vouchers In Pennsylvania | Brandiary<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a recent Broad and Liberty (\u201dthought-provoking and shareable ideas for free thinkers in Greater Philadelphia and beyond\u201d) post, Guy Ciarrocchi argues\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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