Next Tuesday, Utah voters go to the polls to decide if their state will become the first in the nation to offer school vouchers statewide. Referendum 1 would make all public-school kids eligible for vouchers worth from $500 to $3,000 a year, depending on family income. Parents could then use the vouchers to send their children to private schools.
What a great idea. Finally, parents will have choices that wealthy parents have always had. The resulting competition would create better private schools and even improve the government schools.
But wait. Arrayed against the vouchers are the usual opponents......
...article at:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/10/utahns_can_vote_for_school_cho.html
Citizens SHOULD be able to decide whether they want their child to go to a private or public school. And they SHOULDN'T be forced to pay taxes for the public school if their child goes to private or they should get a voucher to compensate for the school taxes they've paid, IMHO.
The referendum failed. Utahns, like the rest of us, have no vouchers.
that's too bad... >:(