That was obviously a worry. Vouchers or similar arrangements now exist in a good many states. Are there examples of their being used in the way you describe?
That was obviously a worry. Vouchers or similar arrangements now exist in a good many states. Are there examples of their being used in the way you describe?
As far as I know in all states that use vouchers there are many requirements and regulations for schools to qualify for them, which affects their programs, curriculums, and policies.
I'm not able to find specific requirements for schools to accept vouchers, only requirements for parents to use them. Either I'm bad at looking, or this information isn't public. However, these requirements exist, they are written by bureaucrats, and they motivate private schools to change their programs and policies to meet the requirements.
A legitimate worry, but not all bad things one can imagine actually happen. If it is common there ought to be stories somewhere about conflicts between what a private school wants to do and what bureaucrats insist on for it to accept vouchers.
I'm not sure that there necessarily have to be complaints. For example there are various federal and state grants and funding programs to universities for implementing DEI programs, and result of that is DEI programs in almost all if not all universities that wouldn't exist otherwise. Yet I haven't seen complaints from universities that they would prefer to not have them, but have to have them in order to receive the funds. In a similar manner requirements to receive vouchers influence programs and policies of schools and no one complains about that, at least publicly.
Every state has compulsory schooling laws, so if government educational bureaucrats are in control, they don't need vouchers to force schools to conform.
Your example of DEI is relevant. You know about it because lots of people did complain.
That was obviously a worry. Vouchers or similar arrangements now exist in a good many states. Are there examples of their being used in the way you describe?
As far as I know in all states that use vouchers there are many requirements and regulations for schools to qualify for them, which affects their programs, curriculums, and policies.
Examples?
I'm not able to find specific requirements for schools to accept vouchers, only requirements for parents to use them. Either I'm bad at looking, or this information isn't public. However, these requirements exist, they are written by bureaucrats, and they motivate private schools to change their programs and policies to meet the requirements.
A legitimate worry, but not all bad things one can imagine actually happen. If it is common there ought to be stories somewhere about conflicts between what a private school wants to do and what bureaucrats insist on for it to accept vouchers.
I'm not sure that there necessarily have to be complaints. For example there are various federal and state grants and funding programs to universities for implementing DEI programs, and result of that is DEI programs in almost all if not all universities that wouldn't exist otherwise. Yet I haven't seen complaints from universities that they would prefer to not have them, but have to have them in order to receive the funds. In a similar manner requirements to receive vouchers influence programs and policies of schools and no one complains about that, at least publicly.
Every state has compulsory schooling laws, so if government educational bureaucrats are in control, they don't need vouchers to force schools to conform.
Your example of DEI is relevant. You know about it because lots of people did complain.