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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/117400264547312008
'Around 70 percent of this year’s voucher recipients were already enrolled in private or home- school. Vouchers are costing the state about a billion dollars this year alone, and could ultimately end up costing $4.4 billion annually. While funding for vouchers comes from a budget that is separate from the public school pot, the state’s funding for public schools has not kept up with inflation.
Texas public schools will lose a projected $227 million just this year, as they shed head count, according to The Houston Chronicle. More public schools may close as a result of vouchers siphoning that money away from them. In Clugston’s opinion, vouchers are “a billion-dollar giveaway program for the rich and we’re gonna have no accountability in it. Zero.”'