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Professor Sabatino Mangini English 100 School Vouchers 29 April 2018 Effects of Vouchers Programs While every parent wants their child to have the best education there is despite their financial income, schools vouchers are not there best solution. Education today is very important to the government and for our youth and many cities across the country has accepted schools vouchers in an attempt to improve the education of children that comes from low-income families. School vouchers are great for education but it causes so much problems in society and should not be taking lightly. In where to invade next, Michael Moore talks about how good public schools were in Finland also with their good public schools, privates schools were not needed because everybody send their kids to those public schools. School vouchers are violation of constitution, where they’re taking taxpayer money from public schools and using it as vouchers for private schools leaving those public schools with no other option but to close their doors for good. School vouchers should be use to better public school not to make private schools better. I previously asked a friend what they knew about school vouchers violating the constitution and they told me this, “The constitution set up government, they says what the government can and cannot do” so using the Pennsylvania constitution as an example which states that taxpayer money that was raised for public schools education cannot be used to support religious schools,therefore lawmaker must acknowledge this while they are trying to create school vouchers. School vouchers effects high-income community, “Community Attachments and Voting for school vouchers” Matthew J. Burbank and Daniel Levin, (Brunner, Sonstelie, and Thayer, 2001:531) theorize that “those owned homes in good school districts would see vouchers as threats to their property value as access to education would no longer be as closely tied to residential location, they found that homeowners in school districts with above-average housing price premiums were less likely to vote for vouchers than homeowners with below-average premiums”. (Pg 1170). Most home-buyer tend to buy a home in a community where there are good schools and they feel their kids would be safe, these above-average homeowner made profits selling their home, but if the buyer realize that he or she’s family don’t have to live in an expensive community for their child to get a better and safer education the seller of these properties would have trouble selling their home. School vouchers are bad for real estate business but to some level and in some cities they actually do some good taking vermont’s school choice voucher system as an example, “School Vouchers and Home Prices” concluded that “Educational choice opportunities (in this case school vouchers) increase residential housing values in vermont. The voucher programs are more valuable (as measured by property values) when there are a larger number of alternative school choices available. The statement could be rearticulated accordingly: the absence of vouchers (and viable alternative schools where those vouchers can be used) depresses property values” (Cannon, Danielsen, and Harrison, Pg 14). Giving school vouchers to low-income families is great for the kids and their parents but bad for business and even more terrible for private schools, rich families buys expensive home in community with other rich people so their kids can be among their own kind, and they want their child to have everything that was pay for by the parents without it being distributed to less fortunate families. Most private schools runs on donations from rich families because of their top notch teachers and good grade-average kids and their high reputation , therefore taking in a kid from a low-average public school set their standard back and could be bad for investments and ruined their school reputation. School vouchers also have some ethnicity impacts, “Community Attachment and Voting for School Vouchers” “The impact of the ethnicity variables produced surprisingly strong effects. Higher percentages of latino and indian residents are, as expected with higher levels of voting for school vouchers after controlling for partisanship and other factors. More surprising is that change in the latino population is negatively associated with voting for vouchers even though higher proportions of latinos are positively associated with voting for school vouchers”(Levin Pg 1175). Some research on vouchers programs in louisiana and indiana has found that public school students that receive vouchers to attend private schools scored lower compared to students who did not attend private schools, Vouchers improves the competition between students and helps parents choose the education that they think is the right fit for their child, but it does not determined how well the student scores in these private schools. “How has the Louisiana Scholarship program affected students” “The test scores of students who used vouchers to enter a louisiana private school dropped significantly compared to their peers who remained in public schools. The researchers also found that the increased competition led to slightly improved test scores in surrounding public schools and decreased segregation overall in louisiana schools” (Prothero Pg 2). According to Matthew Mcknight “False Choice” article on how vouchers program might harm minority students, he stated that for decades, policy wonks, lawmakers, and educators have wrestled with the phenomenon of the achievement gap in U.S. schools. The answer to the essential question—why does such a racialized gap exist?—has proven elusive. Race itself, poverty, location, lack of stability at home, and bad teachers has each been the culprit du jour at one time or another. In Conclusion, “Vouchers: Do we want to risk the Consequences” “People who favor vouchers claims that they will improve education. But if those same people are wrong about everything, the results could be a great and massive disastrous” (Shanker Pg 1). Even though vouchers shows some quality and effort in giving low-income parents the right to choose where their child gets an education it is still not the best solution to the problem. Government funds and taxpayers money that are funded for public school use should be use to better public schools instead of it being used as vouchers for students to attend private schools. Works Cited Michael Moore “Where to Invade Next” 02, 12, 2016, http://wheretoinvadenext.com Shanker, Albert. “Do We Want to Risk the Consequences?”. New Republic. 11/16/92, Vol. 207 Issue 21, p2-2 1p. Academic Search Premier, url: http://web.a.ebscohost.com.libdb.dccc.edu. Burbamk, Mathew J, and Levin, Daniel. “Community Attachment and Voting for School Vouchers.” Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell). Dec2015, Vol. 96 Issue 5 p 1169-1177. 9p. 1 Chart. Academic Search Premier, doi: 10.1111/ssqu. 12225. Cannon, Susanne E, Danielsen, Bartley R, and Harrison, David M. “School Vouchers and Home Prices: Premiums in School Districts Lacking Public Schools. Journal of Housing Research. 2015, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p1-20. 20p. Academic Search Premier, url: http://web.a.ebscohost.com.libdb.dccc.edu. Prothero, Ariana. “How Has Louisiana Scholarship Program Affected Students?”. Education Week. 3/9/2016, Vol. 35 Issue 23, p5-5. 1/9p. Academic Search Premier, url: http/web.a.ebscohost.com.libdb.dccc.edu. Ulrich Boser, Meg Benner, and Erin Roth Posted on March 20, 2018, 10:03 am https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2018/03/20/446699/highly-negative-impacts-vouchers/ False Choice, By Matthew, Mcknight, April 15, 2011, How private Vouchers might harm minority students. https://newrepublic.com/article/86710/school-vouchers-education-republicans
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