Tell Congress to Oppose School Vouchers
by Danny Fisher
This from The Interfaith Alliance:
The House of Representatives will vote this Wednesday on legislation that (if passed) would resurrect the failed Washington, D.C. private school vouchers program — Please take a moment now to ask your Representative to vote against the Scholarships for Opportunity Results (SOAR) Act (H.R. 471)and ensure that federal funds aren’t used to support religious education.
Multiple government studies conducted over the last five years have shown that the program failed to improve the academic achievement of students, and many schools getting funds do not meet basic accountability standards like employing teachers who have at minimum, a bachelor’s degree.
As if the measured lack of success and accountability weren’t enough, roughly 80% of the students receiving the voucher use it to attend religious schools, creating unnecessary entanglement between institutions of religion and government. While there is no doubt that religious schools provide an important service to students and families, they should continue to do so only with private dollars.
Thanks to a compromise worked out last year between President Obama and leaders in Congress, the voucher program is set to be phased out, limiting the funding to cover only the education of students currently receiving vouchers, so that their education would not be disrupted by having to transfer to a new school. But the SOAR Act would negate this compromise and open the program again to receive new students and even moe federal dollars.
This will likely be a very close vote so it is crucial that your Representative in Congress hears from you. Please ask your Representative to oppose the SOAR Act and any other attempts to funnel public tax payer dollars to private religious schools.
Send a message to your representative in Congress here.
Nope. I’ll call mine and tell them to vote FOR the program or else face the consequences.
It’s the taxpayers’ own monies being returned to them for use in educating their children in some other venue than wreckage and Liberal cesspit that is public education.
If that means that the parents spend it on parochial schools then so be it.
Any conflict of church and state in this matter is nothing but a lie spewed by America’s domestic enemies.
One religious organization, the Soka Gakkai, surreptitiously inserts itself into public charter
school programs. Through cunning, they will attempt to slither around any legislation, if we are not vigilant.