The battle over school vouchers in Texas | Our Schools in Crisis
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Texas is the largest Republican-led state without some type of school voucher plan. But that could change.
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Here’s an idea…reinvent public schools. No reason kids need to be locked in classrooms all day
Exactly
we have 50 states in this country. All 50 states have failed in their invention and "reinvention" of public schools.
@@bevs9995 is that why we’re doing the same thing we did 50 years ago?
@@DJ50068 schools have been failing more like the last 30-40 years.
Schools had their chance to change; now people are changing schools. 😉
As a homeschooling parent, NO. Because the underlying issues with children will be the same, which is home life. Another issue, we don’t want the government in our homes. If they give the vouchers to us, strings will be tied with that money and one of the reasons we homeschool is to avoid government telling us what to do with our kids.
Are they forcing the money on homeschool kids?
Communism with a capital C.
As someone who is pro public education and strongly against vouchers, I appreciate hearing your POV.
This isn't actually about choice. We already have a choice. You can pay a transfer fee. Usually it's not much. This is about privatizing schools completely and making more money.
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And you know who will be making that money. IMO, voucher system will cannibalise public school system even more.
Wonder if folks have thought long-term -- eg, noises abt lower property/local taxes if public schools gone. (Depending on source of bulk of school funding)
Exactly
@GlobalCitizen_y2k the public system is a walking corpse outside of rich areas
I don’t won’t to pay for other to go private schools. They can pay if they want. Public schools are having enough with their budgets since Texas keeps cutting things for them.
Cuzco they keep voting for republicans who don't help people...get it?
REPUBLICANS DONT HELP CITIZENS UNLESS THEY'RE RICH.
Stop voting for republicans.
No matter how much money you give public schools money it never helps. How much money is wasted on administration, you need more janitors and maintenance employees then administration. Administration is why teachers are paid less then they currently are.
Im a Tax payer in Texas, and I do not support the Public School to Prison Pipeline and do not want my tax dollars paying for it.
Also, we already have tax deduction for private schools -- meaning you can get an up to 10,000 tax deduction to send your kid to private school.
Drive down to one of the many football stadiums and add up all the maintenance fees. 😂 There's your money.
Yeah no, this is EXACTLY a coupon book for the rich.
The rich don't need help paying for their kids to go to better schools, the teachers unions have ruined public education. Stop forcing kids to attend badly performing public schools no matter how much money you put in it doesn't help
No because with school vouchers poor people will be able to afford to send their kids where they want.
@@texrayvision the upper class and rich cam already afford to send their kids to the best private schools, vouchers will let the kids in poorly performing schools get them into much better schools. That is what the teachers union is against
If public schools in Texas are struggling then why do they have multimillion dollar football stadiums? They have enough money. They just don’t distribute or prioritize it correctly.
Thats true. And the fact of the matter is: is that if we as tax payers were to switch to an allocated system (vouchers), our tax burden would reduce --- In Texas, for example, it would reduce by up to 1-2k or not change at all.
Especially with Cancun Cruz & Abbott in charge.
Unfortunately, the voters will vote for a stadium but not a school
As a person with no kids, i genuinely don’t care where you send your kids to but why do my funds have to allow you that choice? I would prefer to live closer to my job. Do I get tax funded dollars to make that easier?
Exactly. And at the very least, just like with private universities, any private school that receives public money in the form of vouchers must be highly regulated in terms of accomodating marginalized students.
i do have children and grandchildren, and i agree with you. you absolutely should NOT have to
"But why do my funds have to allow you to have choice?"
Lol, we can tell you are Childless, Maya.
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It only helps rich people in the end
Your tax dollars would follow your child.
Separation of church and state-tax money should not pay for a religious education.
Even in Belgium, you can send your kid to Catholic or Jewish or Islamic schools by allocation system.
And the Ironic part --- is that if Christians could separate themselves as a tax base and pay their own way --- they would have a larger tax base than secular america. So it would be your loss not theirs. And I say this as an irreligious person .
Why do they pose this as a “choice for parents” ?? Parents have the choice now to send their kid to whatever school they want lol.
No they don’t. With or without vouchers they don’t. They interviewed a woman in this same video who said she came from a state that had the vouchers. She was low income, therefore, without the money, her kids would have to go to a poor quality public school. With a voucher, despite qualifying, she still could not enroll her kids in private, because none of the schools near her would accept the voucher.
I live in Houston and live closer to one Middle School than the other, yet I'm zoned to the further one and had to email everybody and their mom to advocate for my son why he should be at the closer School. After a fight with the superintendent and both principles from both schools I was finally successful in getting the "transfer" both are public schools in the same district which means my tax dollars are going to both... I should have the choice freely but instead I had to fight for it. I'm not advocating for either side but we definitely don't have school choice in Texas.
@ that’s not a lack of choice it’s a lack of money. If she had the money she could move to whatever school district is best for her child or enroll her child in private school. Why should tax payers pay for that? As a person with no kids, how does that tax program benefit me?
@@jgonzalez9120 that’s a problem with zoning. You live in america so you do have the freedom to move to whatever school district you want. In the scenario you laid out, one can argue that you simply should’ve moved to the school zone you wanted your kid to attend. No law would have prevented that so to say that you don’t have school choice in Texas is ignoring your own agency and putting the blame on outside factors that are within your control.
@@Mayastravel school choice means you can go to any school no matter where you live.. some of the best schools are in neighborhoods not as nice mine.. is that a lack of not being poor or a lack of not wanting to live in a bad neighborhood??
I'm only 20 seconds in; that is a public school. As soon as it's crowdfunded it's no longer private
Exactly.
Great report! Well detailed and explained.
It's simple! Public funds provided by taxpayers SHOULD NOT GO TO PRIVATE SCHOOLS!!!
Im a Tax payer in Texas. I do not support the Public School - to - Prison Pipeline. And I dont want my taxes paying for it
Currently, they go to a public daycare that calls itself a "school;" not exactly better.
@@wargriffin5 Oh, I see! So, taking money away from public schools that are cash strapped is going to solve the issue?
The permanent school fund is not funded by taxpayers. It’s funded by investments from the oil and gas industry. Unless you paid state taxes from winning the lottery, not a single penny of your state tax money goes towards schools.
@jb3760 😆😆😆😆😆😆
I would pay for poor children to go to private school (as mostly rich kids go private) but we'll off families don't need and shouldn't get assistance
Also private schools need to be held to a standard and forced to take tests.. because most are not forced to take the Star tests
I tutored private school kids and their education can sometimes be worse than public.. just as many kids not learning how to read is sad (especially when private school teachers have more freedom and the smaller class sizes to personalized a students education)
The only reason they don't is their not qualified or they're only doing the bare minimum of teaching
Sweden has 67% of its students in private schools supported by the state. It also has excellent public schools. However, very small communities should not be part of the program because there are so few students. Vouchers need to be much larger for special needs students. However, the most important thing is to require the vast majority of the voucher to go to teachers in classrooms in pay and benefits. We have a huge population increase. Vouchers could relieve overcrowding. Most likely many churches would open schools or rent space to private schools. Most teachers oppose vouchers because they have less pay and fewer rights in private schools. Legislation could protect teachers, while at the same time protect religious requirements for teachers at private schools. Teachers should be protected if they report waste, fraud or abuse, no matter the setting. The state also needs to fund cheap classes on how to start a private school in the fastest growing areas of the state. I had a very unpleasant time in public school, but a great time the year I spent in a Lutheran school. Parents need a choice, and people in the community, especially organizations with buildings need to know how to start a private school. Health and safety regulations need to be modified in small schools, as most regulations involve public schools with major crowd control issues. We have to modify any voucher program to help students of all backgrounds and ensure that teachers are treated fairly. Annual standardized testing administered at a public school annually could help track student progress. However, the testing should be on general achievement, not subject matter because private schools may want to teach subjects in different grades from public schools. The key is to craft the laws carefully so that private schools can be creative, yet measure academic achievement.
I'm sure Sweden probably doesn't have the decadent culture and lack of discipline that is destroying our schools and society.
So many questions. Several private schools require an application to be able to enroll in their schools. Would receiving state funding for a portion of its students mean that private schools must now remove their applications? So much of Texas educational legislation is tied to funding. Ie: if you want these funds, you must do X. Would private and charter schools now be held to the same ties in order to receive their funding? Likewise, public schools do not employ teachers without certification, whereas private and charter do. Would they now have to ensure all of their teachers are certified, as per state policy?
Exactly! 💯
Public schools everywhere and in urban schools frequently employee teachers that aren't certified to get the schools teacher staff more diverse and to get teachers for students that don't speak English.
Federal money for education was tied to forcing communities to send funds to poor minority communities to fund their schools and forced school districts in certain neighborhoods build low income housing to receive funds. Now the federal government can't steal money from communities to fund other communities and force local government to raise property taxes to cover everything
@@paulwood356That is news to me. What state are you in that this is regularly allowed?
@しょうがない-u4w a quick search using key words like teacher diversity and the lowering of educational standards to become a public teacher or E.S.L teacher/assistant and you will find a massive amount of information proving that it occurs in almost every state and especially in school districts facing teacher shortages. The 3 branches of government all played a part in allowing it for reasons like getting more minority teachers in urban schools because of calls for black students to see their race represented and claims that the black students would learn better and out of the sheer lack of teachers looking to work in urban schools.
This will be bad for parents with a special needs child.
So how much more are private schools going to charge people if the vouchers get passed? States that have passed laws like this have seen private school prices drastically increase
I live in Houston and live closer to one Middle School than the other, yet I'm zoned to the further one and had to email everybody and their mom to advocate for my son why he should be at the closer School. After a fight with the superintendent and both principles from both schools I was finally successful in getting the "transfer" both are public schools in the same district which means my tax dollars are going to both... I should have the choice freely but instead I had to fight for it. I'm not advocating for either side but we definitely don't have school choice in Texas.
Cuzco you keep voting republicans in.
Vouchers are nothing more than a special right given to people who CHOSE to have kids to divert public tax money paid by all to benefit themselves. Voters have no say in how private schools spend that money or what they teach, unlike public schools with elected school boards who are answerable to all of the public.
This is a worthy discussion
This is a choice not a requirement
We must not stay silent about our children education in Texas
As for me, parents who pay tuition to enroll their children in private schools or who homeschool their children should be exempt from paying public school taxes. They should not be double taxed. I also believe that every parent should have a constitutional right to homeschool their children if they so choose to.
@@bryang3635
If that's your reasoning, I have no kids and never had any, so I should be exempt too from paying school taxes.
Waller ISD alone just approved a $700+ million bond for four new schools. Let that sink in.
As a teacher I can say that these parents stories are one sided yes it can adjust the funding of the schools but who fault is that ? The school ! If your child is so excited to go to school and they love their school and you see they are learning would you move your kid ? No When you shop if you love the customer service do you go to another store ? Schools need to step up and do better to keep the students. I have first hand seen how schools have thousands of money PTA in these schools and yet the teachers struggle to pay the rent ! In a well off school but due to school districts spending issues not giving teachers raises not valuing them asking teachers and staff to do many positions teachers have been asked to be custodians ,secretaries and counselors with the same one pay this is why teachers are leaving this is what they are not telling people not only that teachers and staff being students punching bags. That is what parents needs to be concerned about bigger issues than preventing other people rights.
Are the funds going to only given to those under a certain income?
Why can’t public schools offer the same alleged better education that private schools have? The private school should differ in maybe customs, religious practices, or schedule but why do we accept that the quality of education be lower to children who don’t have the luxury on attending private institutions? The teachers at public and private should still be educators that are passionate about their job and the responsibility of it. Do public school students not deserve the best?
That's the nub of it. The most powerful military in the world does not care about the education of it's own people. When they say education is simply unaffordable, push back. Demand it be made affordable.
Private schools get to select the students they want. They can exclude the students they do not want. They can require a high level of parental involvement that will only be possible when a child’s family is more stable and supportive. Private schools are not required to accommodate students with special needs. All these factors allow private schools to select the students with the highest odds of academic success. If private schools were required to accept and educate every student in the area and not just the easiest children to teach, then their scores would probably be much more similar to public education.
@ThatLittleTexanWoman Wow, that's well said. I have taught in private schools and never even thought of that.
I'll pay for a voucher if it pays for a family that makes less than 60,000 combined to send their kids. Rich Kids can use their parents piggy banks.
I love that they present both sides.
What if they had a state lottery? All the profit collected from selling the lottery tickets could help fund the schools.
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There already is that
@@MiguelY22That’s the joke. Clearly the fund raiser is working.
I remember in '92 when the lottery was legalized, they said it would go to education. I ain't seeing it.
@@bullard73In the 90s, the state saw a huge growth from people relocating. Schools were overcrowded, supplies low and outdated. All the money my parents paid in school taxes went to build brand new schools and equipment for all the people who had just moved here and had not yet begun to even pay taxes. I just don’t understand how we can pay over $10k a year in school district taxes alone, and still they complain they don’t have enough money. I mean, my daughter isn’t getting $10k worth of education. And I was childless paying those same taxes for almost a decade, on top of all the money my mom still pays even though her children have been out of school for 15-20 years. I remember in 7th grade, in the mid 90s, learning of Edgewood and the Robin Hood funding for schools. So, in theory, my family’s taxes were going to poorer schools. But that spring break, a classmate visited Edgewood and said it was nicer than ours!!! That doesn’t sound like it’s being distributed evenly.
📌 They're going to lower the standards of elevated education, folks. Be weary of what you support.😂
Welcome to the new GOP! If our schools are in crisis, our country is in crisis.
I live in Arizona and we have this. I already pay for public education for my kids with my property taxes but before this I had to pay that plus my kids $6k per year private school. I was a public school teacher and I never want my kids to be exposed to that environment. These funds go to homeschooling kids too. Many people are benefiting from this program and no we aren’t rich. Average middle class people. Most rich people would rather write a check than go through the hoops of this program.
"I was a public school teacher and I never want my kids to be exposed to that environment." My wife is just retiring on Jan 1 from public school teaching and from what she tells me, the environment is deplorable. And it seems that the boards of ed are too wimpy to fix the problerms.
Cool, make it so no tax dollars go to faith based schools and I'm on board. No tax dollars should ever go to a religious school.
Wow, 6k is cheap. Is that elementary school tuition? What is the tuition for High School?
Why not get the money from our representatives. I'm sure Greg Abbott and his business partners have plenty of money. Also doesn't the Catholic Church have lots of money also? They shouldn't make the tax payers pay for private schools. They are already paying for public schools. As well as healthcare for the privledged few. Enough.
Parents will end up sending their bad kids to those schools too. It'll just bring the everyone down
This should go to the voters via referendum, but the special interest bought politicians know it would fail.
If you want school choice let them, go to any public school regardless of where they live. There isn't enough money to send everyone to a private school. Private schools can still select who they want in their schools and they will take the money and then raise the price to keep the poor out. I'm sure about and his cronies are in the pocket of the private schools.
You know what can't lock you out of teaching tools. A freaking book
It’s not the rich! It’s all the middle class!
What about safety? Kids are not protected.
The problem is how attendance is tied to funding and the no child left behind. I do believe education is necessary but not all children should be funneled into the same route. They should promote GED to kids who have poor attendance and/or trade school. We beg and plead and harass parents and students into attendance and it ends up hurting our funding.
Ridiculous. Go to public school if you cant afford it.
you childless? Or do you just like the idea of children suffering?
This is a great call if a student is coming to school. And doing things other than learning. He should not be at that school and if the school cannot get rid of that student, the students that want to learn should be able to go somewhere where there are students that are like-minded. They're there to learn not, to show off how to pick fights button to learn. There is no excuse for falling behind. We all have smartphones or access to computers. So that means when you're done of class, you still have an ability to study and catch back up and if you choose not to that decision should not negatively impact other students. Which is what takes place as a parent? You are not taking responsibility for your child.
If you don't put them in the best place. For them to learn, and you know what school is actually for
All the kids needs is a religious health care education
Study in a line for the line of your life from conception to old age to religiously medically integrate under integration over segeration to have a religious medical integrationist education
That is not true to apply for those vouchers like the parent said its for those who dont make enough money to send their child to a private school ask any parent why they want their child to go to a private school quality education all children deserve that so fix up your schools give every child a quality education maybe they will stay. When schools had funding was they doing the right thing with it no and the parents didnt have a say cause it was not hurting them cause they say you need us where would you go ? With vouchers to private schools they do. These vouchers do not pay for everything so parents do have a say because they pay a portion . If a state is only allowing vouchers at F schools which I think is a lie I have never seen that and I have used vouchers than that is against so many laws she need to fight against that.
So glad not to have kids.
Stop having kids.
School vouchers are the stupidest thing ever.
Belgium does it.
The pros and cons of religious medical integration over segeration and the Liner City's Lines integration real estate developments investments programs plans much like The Line of Saudi Arabias Neom integration real estate developments from Elk River to Huntsville Alabama or from Texas to Alabama
Yet again, the people vote on an issue and leave it to the government to not do what they wanted. It was on the ballot and overwhelmingly. Texans voted for school of choice. It is absolutely time to vote out all members of the government that voted against bills for their children.
Should the United States of America go under religious medical integration and integrate inn to a massive Marriott inn type setting for a production lines of a massive health care systems much like The Line of Saudi Arabias Neom integration real estate developments programs
Take The Line of Saudi Arabias of a virtual reality of a medical meta verse universe of integration over a failed segerated housing slums type setting
If Jessica Vasquez wants her kids to go to this religious private school, SHE NEEDS TO PAY FOR IT!!! She and any other parents who advocate for school choice vouchers!
Take The Line of Saudi Arabias of a virtual reality of a medical meta verse universe of integration over a failed segerated housing slums type setting that the northern district of Alabama should of religiously medically integrated under integration over segeration 55.years ago
Do not approve this
To have access to drugs by 5th grade is not a thing I want for my kids. School is not like back in the 90’s. A progressive leninist agenda is at play in many places and we will decide where to take our kids to school.
Especially the past 4 years .N9 consequents for out of control children. SMH
"A progressive leninist agenda" GIVE ME A FN BREAK, FOOL.
Why should tax payers pay for someone else's kids religious indoctrination?
you got drugs in 5th grade? Man, I didnt get any offers until 6th grade.
Typical lazy parent. Instead of teaching their own children, or in this case in a church, they want to dump their problems on school teachers.
I guarantee that mom only goes to church during holidays or when there is a potluck.
SChool sucks
I am sorry you had a bad experience in school. I went to school in Canada and loved school as did most of my peers. Canada has exceptional education , consistent over rich and poor areas , with lots of reaources, special ed and well paid educators.