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Saturday, October 06, 2007"A No-Lose Proposition""... vouchers will draw students out of overcrowded classrooms while leaving money behind to make things better. Vouchers will spark genuine free-market competition that will inspire public schools to improve."Clipped from last Sunday's Daily Herald. Click here to read the entire editorial.
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For information on the real fiscal impact of this bill your readers could check out the impartial analysis your fiscal analyst put together that shows vouchers costing taxpayers millions.
http://senatesite.com/Documents/2007/ImpartialAnalysis.pdf
I can see why you don't want this information publicized but you should at least be honest about it. Vouchers will leave far less money behind for public schools than they will cost our taxpayers. We'd all be better off if our legislature spent this money directly on public schools instead of on this wasteful plan.
Also...competition hasn't been shown to improve schools in other places where vouchers have been tried.
Right! These guys didn't want the information publicized so they hosted it on their own website. Another two points for the anti-voucherites!
More money for education is more money for education. It's cynical and transparent when those who cry out for more education funding go into full retreat when a tiny portion of that funding trickles through channels outside union control.
P.S. A little competition sure wouldn't hurt the Salt Lake School District.
Unfortunately for The Daily Herald, they neglected to do their homework. And unfortunately for the Senate Site, they believe what they read in the paper. Vouchers do not inspire public schools to improve, please take a look at the supporting data at http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/book_vouchers.
Anonymous 8:03 AM is right...Senate Site has hosted the "Impartial Analysis" on their site. Unfortunately it is only mentioned once on this blog deep in the comments section of a post from a couple months ago.
Special thanks to Senate Site for hosting this document that you've done so little to publicize. I can see why you'd rather publicize newspaper editorials than analysis from the Legislative Fiscal Analyst. The Daily Herald doesn't have to attempt stick to the facts when making their points...an important feature when advocating for vouchers.
I know the anti-voucher folks point to the legislative fiscal analysis as there smoking gun that vouchers don't work. However, it is fairly vauge in how it achieved its results. I spent half the weekend working on a spreadsheet and I still haven't been able to figure out exactly how their numbers add up.
PS Is the full mathmatical breakdown of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst report available. I would appreciate the "certain assumptions" the analyst made in writing the report.
Green Jello - here are the background calculations and list of assumptions that went into the analysis.
Also: Anyone can question someone else's set of assumptions to create FUD (fear, uncertainty, & doubt), which is all the voucher opponents have to do to win. The LFA doesn't claim to have a crystal ball, but we trust them to be smart, reasonable, and impartial.
I would be very interested in Green Jello's analysis.
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