Should Ghosts Receive School Vouchers?
And more stories from a week in education news
No matter where you stand on the debate over school vouchers, it seems reasonable to suggest that if a voucher is awarded, that voucher should be for the education of an actual student.
That’s not always the case in North Carolina, however, as a recent story indicates:
Riverside Christian Academy — 16 students enrolled, and 55 vouchers! At $6492 per student, that’s a heck of a windfall. Mitchener University Academy reported an enrollment of 72 and collected 149 vouchers — so about $230,000 of taxpayer money handed over for non-existent students.
Examples like this were plentiful in an analysis of the state’s voucher program that found $2.3 million going to schools for students who seemed not to exist.
Does changing the logo make a difference?
Teach for America seems to think so.
Here’s some analysis on the rebranding of the decades-old program that purports to provide teacher training and needed educators to high poverty schools:
The reality is that TFA, once a potential disruptor of what they saw as an education system that wasn’t working well for all kids, is now just a part of the status quo — a…
