In the voucher system, the source of the funding is still the taxation system. The financing is based on the principle that it is legitimate to use political power in order to grant benefits to one group at the expense of the other. The principle of coercion is still dominant. The dominant principle, over time, will thwart the elements of voluntarism in any pseudo-market scheme. The state is still the operational sovereign over education, simply because the threat of violence, which is the state’s legal monopoly, is the source of the funds for education…
He [Friedman] believes that the technical alteration of the way in which coercively collected taxes are redistributed can overcome the authority of the state. He acknowledges that the authority of the parents in a voucher scheme cannot be absolute. “
Forty grassroots groups in Indiana agree with North. They think choice is a dirty word that sounds good, but in fact opens the door to forcing things like Common Core into the private schools where parents are now putting their kids to get away from Common Core.
From Breitbart- “As conservatives and activists who have been at the forefront of the education debates in Indiana for the past two years, the groups represented here reject recent media reports that the expansion of school vouchers is a major priority for grassroots conservatives,” said Heather Crossin, co-founder of Hoosiers Against Common Core. “School choice needs freedom to thrive; therefore our first priority is to free voucher schools from the stifling regulations which bind them. We believed it was important to set the record straight.”
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