Category: Vouchers
by Marshall Fritz Last updated April 12, 2007 As bedtime nears, mom says to three-year-old Johnny, “Red pajamas, or blue pajamas?” Giving Johnny a small choice usually deflects him from the larger question of whether or not to fight… Continue Reading…
by Marshall Fritz Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1996 Many freedom lovers believe that tax-funded vouchers will improve schooling by adding competition. Some focus on the teachers unions as The Big Problem and see vouchers… Continue Reading…
by Marshall Fritz Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1996 The debate over tax-funded school vouchers historically has been framed with two sides: Dr. Milton Friedman and fellow freedom lovers up against a huge education lobby… Continue Reading…
by Marshall Fritz Last updated June 21, 2007 Vouchers will harm education in four ways: 1. Vouchers come with “strings attached.” These soon become chains. 2. Vouchers expand dependency to self-reliant families now paying for private schooling.… Continue Reading…
by Marshall Fritz Last updated August 11, 2008 Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 6, July 1996 The government education monopoly is school welfare, and tax-funded vouchers are the Typhoid Mary of education reforms, spreading dependency and regulation… Continue Reading…
Dinner with Margaret Thatcher; “Direction Challenged” in the Bronx; Round & Round with the Voucher-ites By Marshall Fritz Last updated February 21, 2008 Originally published in The Education Liberator, Vol. 2, No. 5, June 1996 Overview Nineteen hard-pushing days of… Continue Reading…
by Tammy Drennan Last updated April 9, 2007 Vouchers that would pay for parents to send their children to public or private schools are the latest in a long line of reform movements, all of which involve entitlement programs, and… Continue Reading…
by Douglas Dewey Last updated April 18, 2007 Editor’s Note: Douglas Dewey, President of The National Scholarship Center in Washington, DC, delivered these remarks as part of a voucher debate at SepCon’95. They have been edited slightly for length. Originally… Continue Reading…
By Cathy Cuthbert July 6, 2002 LewRockwell.com Last week, the Judicial Oracles spoke and education was the theme. Headlines shouted the news that vouchers are constitutional and that saying the word “God” in public school is not, while the intelligentsia, not… Continue Reading…
by Gordon Francis Corbett After the Supreme Court ruled that school vouchers are Constitutional, some authorities said that vouchers are just as Constitutional as the G.I. Bill was. They are right, but not in the way they intend. Some admirers… Continue Reading…