I'll add that Trinity costs $16,400 in tuition a year. That's not including the various additional fees for technology and sports to the best of my knowledge. Also as it is now there are quite a few programs available for people who are interested in having their child attend a Catholic school that provide tuition assistance. I won't say that every student who applies is able to get their entire cost covered but there is a significant amount of help already for these schools. My daughter is probably going to attend a Catholic girls high school in Louisville next year and we're getting tuition assistance that cuts the price in half. JCPS has a lot of issues (as does Louisville as a whole) but school vouchers are not going to fix them.
That's good information, Rachel - and yes, in many states, the cost of tuition at very good private schools far exceeds the amount of any voucher. In states like Indiana, vouchers essentially created a separate school system that busted local budgets - certainly, straining local budgets or taking up finite state education dollars is not a good way to address the challenges schools in Louisville (and Kentucky as a whole) face.
People also don't understand that private schools don't have to abide by 504 plans or IEPs that federally funded public schools must. It's unlikely students will be evaluated for services as well or as often if vouchers are approved. Public schools are not by and large doing as well as we'd like for Needs students but we have made so much progress in understanding and learning about how best to help the most students and I don't see enough people discussing this.
Great point - the pro-voucher argument talks about what people might gain from using a voucher - but there's not enough discussion about what is lost, like rights under IDEA
I'll add that Trinity costs $16,400 in tuition a year. That's not including the various additional fees for technology and sports to the best of my knowledge. Also as it is now there are quite a few programs available for people who are interested in having their child attend a Catholic school that provide tuition assistance. I won't say that every student who applies is able to get their entire cost covered but there is a significant amount of help already for these schools. My daughter is probably going to attend a Catholic girls high school in Louisville next year and we're getting tuition assistance that cuts the price in half. JCPS has a lot of issues (as does Louisville as a whole) but school vouchers are not going to fix them.
That's good information, Rachel - and yes, in many states, the cost of tuition at very good private schools far exceeds the amount of any voucher. In states like Indiana, vouchers essentially created a separate school system that busted local budgets - certainly, straining local budgets or taking up finite state education dollars is not a good way to address the challenges schools in Louisville (and Kentucky as a whole) face.
People also don't understand that private schools don't have to abide by 504 plans or IEPs that federally funded public schools must. It's unlikely students will be evaluated for services as well or as often if vouchers are approved. Public schools are not by and large doing as well as we'd like for Needs students but we have made so much progress in understanding and learning about how best to help the most students and I don't see enough people discussing this.
Great point - the pro-voucher argument talks about what people might gain from using a voucher - but there's not enough discussion about what is lost, like rights under IDEA