Public Vs Private Schools: Will Vouchers Destroy Public Education?

"Late last month, the state of Louisiana unveiled a new school voucher program, joining 14 other states that have recently increased the availability of vouchers to fund private school tuition with public dollars. This latest pet project of popular Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, called Louisiana Believes, is now regarded as the most extensive voucher system in the United States -- out-privatizing even the state of Indiana, where nearly 60 percent of the state's students are eligible for vouchers. By eroding caps on family income levels, and thereby providing voucher assistance to both low- and middle-income families, Indiana's plan aimed to remake public education in the state more extensively than any voucher system in US history -- until now. Like Indiana's program, Louisiana's new voucher plan is so wide in scope that it could eventually cut the state's public education funding in half. But in a number of crucial ways, the Louisiana model works even harder to destroy public education than Indiana's program does...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.

*Read more from Kristin Rawls at Alternet.org: http://www.alternet.org/story/155802/...

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[matthew neal]

by the way the MAJORITY of private schools in this country are non-profit. i say that to rebuke ana kasparians rant about private schools number one priority being about profit.

this show should fire ana. she is a left wing hack who's views and opinions mirror my own when i was 15 years old.

[matthew neal]

at 4:50 cenk is wrong about "its all about the private schools getting government contracts, its not about the quality of the education". if the governments money went to the school maybe he could make that point but the money is in the form of a voucher which means it goes to the student. if the government gives the money to the student to go to any private school they want then private schools do not directly recieve money from the goverment and Cenk asserts.

[Juan Guarneros]

not all public schools are horrible i went to LINDLEY MIDDLE 7 and 8 and that was a very good public school the teachers help you and they are also nice and fun :D

[PJR1216]

I start off my high school career at a public school and had no problem with it. Then we moved and I went to a private Catholic all male college prep high school and I would have to say I got a much better education there than from public school. An added bonus was the community and great friends I made through the school. In fact, John Boehner attended the same high school

[Bebop Broadcaster]

Why not both?

[Bebop Broadcaster]

School vouchers are the wave of the future. Get used to it. Whether TYT gets it or not, bureaucratizing everything is not the answer. Throwing millions of dollars at public education is not the answer. A compulsory, tax-funded education system is ludicrous; it does not reinforce learning, and it turns learning into a chore. The federal government should stay out of education and allow people to make their own decisions.

[Maggie N charlie]

my younger sister went to a public school and the teachers their was bullyin her bout her weight and so on ....the public school she went to was SILVER CREEK indiana sellersburg the teachers wher just horrable TNKS TO PRIVATE SCHOOL they helped my sister n dnt have sick problems like public schools do ................

[Maggie N charlie]

public schools suck.....my child go's to silver creek in indiana sellersburg....... their teachers their just dnt help my child learn anything my child has disability's that the teacher have no skills to sit n teach Special children .......and so on .......i sent my child to a private school and her grades r outstanding shes aproved alot more than the public school !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!! TNK U PRIVATE SCHOOLS

[ShellB12]

Towards the end, Cenk forgot what the voucher system means. It means the parents get the federal dollars to send their kids to school and the school has to please the parents in order to stay open. No politicians get bribed in that process. Public school funding should taper off and cease as the voucher system is phased in.

[kittybaby816]

The vouchers GIVE CHOICE. People want Choices (options). Public education excludes religion and they're people who believe it's important to have that so they want to attend a private school. This liberal propaganda is all a matter of biased opinion. Not all private schools teach religion. I encourage everyone to see the dumb down education system. In California they're changing the SAT again. Public education isn't for everyone, you can't standardize people, they're unique. .

[kittybaby816]

They talk about crony capitalism please. The money going to Washington DOE coming for the people sitting on their ass leaching off the money that can go to teachers salary's or hiring more teachers. Private school is like going to a private collage you certainly do get a GOOD education. Not all private schools profit from this. Don't forget the ones that reinvest back into education and etc. You're not sending the kids to a for profit school like for profit collages. 

[kittybaby816]

Sounds Liberal. Money doesn't equal education. California San Diego schools waste money A lot of money a shit load. The education is horrible. We just got an increase for more money in schools. Taking their funding isn't going to hurt. I learned more on my computer then anything my public school bought. In private schools where you pay out of your pocket, you're just going make sure you get a good education so you have parent involvement.