Why We're Not Winning School Choice Elections By Paul Weyrich

The school choice battle has come to Utah and it is a battle every American should know about.  Let me explain what is going on, what is at stake, and provide a little bit of historical analysis that might give us some insight as to what might happen in November.

        Oversimplifying (of course), Utah has on the ballot a referendum on a voucher program passed by the Legislature earlier this year.  Utah spends $7,500 per pupil in the public school system.  The voucher program would provide between $500 and $3,000, depending upon family income, to students switching to private schools.  An average voucher is projected to be less than $2,000, which would create a savings of more than $5,500 as to every student who used a voucher.

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