This woman is mentally deficient. Saying voucher schools would lack accountability? Does your supermarket or hard wear store lack accountability? Of course NOT. If you have a consumer driven school system, and the suppliers are producing low quality products, they are accountable in the sense that they'll go out of business! The status quo is a government monopoly that gets paid regardless of quality. Incompetence is protected and excellence is ignored.
Voucher schools are pushed by the GOP to privatize the education system in America?
The millions of dollars spent to subsidize the private schools Milwaukee, would be better spent on recruiting high quality teachers. The requirement that teachers must live within the district they teach, should and must be removed, high quality teachers will come into the MPS if they have the choice of where to live. By rewarding high quality education personal, the quality of education will also improve.
Claim #1: "The children in public schools are subjected to...state standardized tests to show that...they are making the gains that they're supposed to make and children in the voucher schools don't have to do that. So after 17 years of voucher schools we really don't know how the children in voucher schools are doing."
Truth: Voucher schools, according to the widely recognized longitudinal study conducted by the University of Arkansas released in February 2008, are by law "required to administer a nationally normed standardized test annually in reading, mathematics, and sciences." So while Anne is technically correct that voucher schools don't have to take "state standardized tests," they do have to take some form of nationally accepted standardized test.
Many voucher schools (40 to be precise) actually do administer the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination, the standardized test public schools are subjected to.
In light of the law requiring voucher schools to take a nationally normed standardized test and the fact that many voucher school students take the same test public school students take, Anne's final claim, that "we don't really know how the children in voucher schools are doing" is blatantly false.
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Patriotskull1 1 year ago
This woman is mentally deficient. Saying voucher schools would lack accountability? Does your supermarket or hard wear store lack accountability? Of course NOT. If you have a consumer driven school system, and the suppliers are producing low quality products, they are accountable in the sense that they'll go out of business! The status quo is a government monopoly that gets paid regardless of quality. Incompetence is protected and excellence is ignored.
TimeWarp66 2 years ago
Voucher schools are pushed by the GOP to privatize the education system in America?
The millions of dollars spent to subsidize the private schools Milwaukee, would be better spent on recruiting high quality teachers. The requirement that teachers must live within the district they teach, should and must be removed, high quality teachers will come into the MPS if they have the choice of where to live. By rewarding high quality education personal, the quality of education will also improve.
FreeThinker1737 3 years ago
Claim #1: "The children in public schools are subjected to...state standardized tests to show that...they are making the gains that they're supposed to make and children in the voucher schools don't have to do that. So after 17 years of voucher schools we really don't know how the children in voucher schools are doing."
Appletonian 3 years ago
Truth: Voucher schools, according to the widely recognized longitudinal study conducted by the University of Arkansas released in February 2008, are by law "required to administer a nationally normed standardized test annually in reading, mathematics, and sciences." So while Anne is technically correct that voucher schools don't have to take "state standardized tests," they do have to take some form of nationally accepted standardized test.
Appletonian 3 years ago
Many voucher schools (40 to be precise) actually do administer the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination, the standardized test public schools are subjected to.
In light of the law requiring voucher schools to take a nationally normed standardized test and the fact that many voucher school students take the same test public school students take, Anne's final claim, that "we don't really know how the children in voucher schools are doing" is blatantly false.
Appletonian 3 years ago