tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post8353702343540080809..comments2024-03-27T08:53:29.267-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: IN: Voucher Increase To Serve Church, Not TaxpayersPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-1209868217665273862021-06-08T12:33:06.223-04:002021-06-08T12:33:06.223-04:00The Catholic Church saying the quiet part out loud...The Catholic Church saying the quiet part out loud isn't new. While the politicians and legislators who sold the voucher plan (without direct public approval) have shifted from achievement increase for poor kids in "failing" schools to "choice" for the sake of "choice," the beneficiaries of the gift of public funds have always been clear that the plan is and always has been, to get public dollars for the Church. <br /><br />Check out the 2014 guest post by Phyllis Bush on Anthony Cody's Education Week blog. In it she details how the "Choice Scholarship" comes with no strings attached (Indiana politician: No accountability because they are private schools), and how "the church will now have the funds to pay for things that they haven't been able to keep up with...like deferred maintenance issues..."<br /><br />https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/opinion-indiana-vouchers-will-help-fix-church-steeples/2014/02<br /><br />"When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, ‘tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one." - Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Richard Price. October 9, 1790.Stuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15854925612517206979noreply@blogger.com