Voicing opposition to vouchers, a Bradley County Board of Education member asks, “How can we afford to give any of our money to any private school, no matter what the argument may be?”
Here’s how: Ignore the “arguments” and look at the facts.
Look at school systems where vouchers have worked academically and economically, and imitate them.
Start with Washington, D.C.
Washington annually spends more than $16,000 educating each of its public school students — with results that in many cases are scarcely better than if students spent their school hours playing Chutes and Ladders.