Democrats Are Successful In Trapping Students In Government Schools

"More than 1.5 million students now attend charters, an 11% increase from a year ago. That's only about 3% of all public school students..."

- Wall Street Journal

"....06% of all k-12 students in the United States use a voucher to attend a private school."

- EducationTaxCredits.com

Democrats Fund Private Schools In Pakistan But Not America

"The U.S., for one, says it plans to invest in private schools as part of a multibillion-dollar aid package designed to erode extremism in the nuclear-armed country battered by Taliban attacks."
- Associated Press

"Members of Congress send their children to private schools while denying poor, inner-city children the same opportunity."
- Wall Street Journal

Charter Schools Benefit 22X More Students Than Vouchers

"During the 2008-2009 school year, about 61,700 students nationwide received vouchers, up 9% from the previous school year, according to the Alliance for School Choice, a pro-voucher advocacy group. Even so, vouchers aren't available in most states, and they have gained far less support than charter schools, which are attended by an estimated 1.4 million students."

- Robert Tomsho

An Honest Public School Superintendent

"Kids bring money to the table."

- William Andrekopoulos, Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent

Secretary Of Education Avoids Washington D.C. Public Schools

"That was why we chose where we live, it was the determining factor . . . I didn't want to try to save the country's children and our educational system and jeopardize my own children's education."

- Arne Duncan, United States Secretary Of Education

Washington D.C. Vouchers Work

"the earliest participants in the voucher program — presumably, kids from those families most eager to escape D.C. public-school failure — were ahead of their public-school counterparts by the equivalent of 19 months of reading instruction after three years in private schools."

- Jay P. Greene

Washington DC Private School Enrollment

"In the lowest quartile, 5% of the children attend private schools, whereas in the top quartile, 55% of the children attend private schools."

- Eduwonkette

Obama-Biden: The Private School Ticket

Barack Obama and Joe Biden both attended private high schools and both have sent or are sending their children to private schools.

- Goldwater Institute

Ohio Vouchers Grow Over 40%

Number of Ohio students attending private school with EdChoice vouchers:

2008-2009: 10,450
2007-2008: about 7,000

- Cincinnati.com

Strong Demand For Private School Choice

Washington D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program:

"There are five applicants for every opening."

- Wall Street Journal

Barack Obama Opposes School Vouchers

"what i do oppose is using public money for private school vouchers"

- Barack Obama's NEA acceptance speech, 4:58 mark

How To Tell When Public Schools Have Been Fixed

"The day that members of Congress will send their kids to the public schools in Washington, D.C., is the day I'll know we've fixed education in America."

- John McCain

Why Suburbanites Oppose Vouchers

it decreases their home values:
"If anyone is free to go to any school, a great benefit of owning a home in a suburb with superior schools vanishes--and with it, part of the home's value."

they do not want inner-city students going to their schools:
"What is more, parents who have invested large sums of money keeping their kids out of failing inner-city schools do not necessarily want their taxes used to pay for inner-city children to attend their own children's schools."


- Wall Street Journal

Democrats Support Vouchers

Vouchers Democrats Support:
Higher Education Vouchers (Pell Grants, GI Bill)
Housing Vouchers
Food Vouchers (Food Stamps)

Vouchers Democrats Do Not Support:
K-12 Education Vouchers


Why do Democrats support higher education vouchers but not k-12 education vouchers?

Strong Demand For Vouchers In Washington D.C.

According to the Anthony Williams, the former mayor of Washington D.C., there are four applicants for every available school voucher in Washington D.C.

1 Out Of Every 1,500 Students Uses A Voucher To Attend A Private School

There are roughly 55,000,000 k-12 students in the United States.
35,000 of them use a voucher to attend a private school.
Therefore, .06% of all k-12 students in the United States use a voucher to attend a private school.
This is about 1 out of every 1,500 students.