Minimum voucher system oversight should be: ✅ All public school testing reqs ✅ Background checks for teachers ✅ Annual school financial audits ✅ Written reason for expulsion or admission denial filed at state ✅ Offer IEP/504 ✅ Open bid for middleman vendors - ThreadSky

joshcowenmsu.bsky.social • 45 days ago

Minimum voucher system oversight should be:

✅ All public school testing reqs
✅ Background checks for teachers
✅ Annual school financial audits
✅ Written reason for expulsion or admission denial filed at state
✅ Offer IEP/504
✅ Open bid for middleman vendors

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schoolfinance101.bsky.social•45 days ago

And here are a few issues, especially with religious providers.
Many, in the name of their religion, are simply deniers of certain well established topics (science/history) commonly tested.
Religious non-profits are exempt from even the minimal non-profit financial reporting requirements.
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schoolfinance101.bsky.social•45 days ago

Religious schools may choose to expel or exclude children or entire families based on religious belief (which may actually intersect with race, leading to racial discrimination).
Current SCOTUS unlikely to permit states to impose accountability on these schools if it inhibits their "free exercise"

schoolfinance101.bsky.social•45 days ago

Which would be fine if these schools were simply operating as private entities, with a) no public financing and b) no favored tax status [a gov't delineation]. But they are not. And current SCOTUS considers it discriminatory to exclude these schools from public financing. Dangerous territory.

schoolfinance101.bsky.social•45 days ago

The only avenue left for maintaining any degree of a) protection of student rights (discrimination, disability, due process, speech, etc.) b) protection of/transparency of taxpayer dollars, is to shut down private school voucher programs (perhaps also charters).

schoolfinance101.bsky.social•45 days ago

A few posts written even before that last few SCOTUS rulings that made things even more dire:
https://schoolfinance101.com/2021/07/16/charter-schooling-in-the-post-espinoza-fulton-era/
https://schoolfinance101.com/2021/07/16/charter-schooling-in-the-post-espinoza-fulton-era/

schoolfinance101.bsky.social•45 days ago

blocht574.bsky.social•45 days ago

Shouldn’t they have a publicly elected school board too? For public accountability with meetings that follow freedom of information act.

joewyman.bsky.social•45 days ago

What about ensuring they offer the same number of days? Don't private schools often have shorter school years?

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