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Some of the nation’s first statewide voucher programs were created specifically for students with disabilities. But most legislatures haven’t required private schools that take this public money to accept even a few kids with such needs.

propublica.orgVouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest ...

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mysteryclock.bsky.social
@mysteryclock.bsky.social

All these voucher schemes would fall apart if the playing field was JUST leveled: curriculum that matches state standards, mandating the same aggressive testing and consequences regime for teachers and admins, requiring enrollment of IEP & ELL students (and eating any extra costs), all of it.

mysteryclock.bsky.social
@mysteryclock.bsky.social

FD - I say "eliminating nearly all screens" as someone with a degree in Computer Science, mind you. I don't mind computer in labs in the educational day, but they should be treated as a part of the learning rotation and not the attention- and reading-skill-killing monsters they've become.

WakeMeWhenItsOver😴
@zelbel.bsky.social

oh, I agree. i think curriculums should be more reading and discussion focused overall. unfortunately, maintaining funding and staffing is difficult which makes other improvements far off. :/

mysteryclock.bsky.social
@mysteryclock.bsky.social

Oh there's a whole big pile of improvements like eliminating nearly all screens, less pointless testing, no book banning, etc. we could make to existing schools. I'm just saying if we're going to have standards (💩-ty or not) then they should apply equally to ALL taxpayer-funded. Period.