Opinion | Colorado’s Democrats, it’s time to support school vouchers
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled — correctly, in my opinion — that religious schools can’t be discriminated against if a state decides to offer public funding to private schools. The ruling will make the push for vouchers even greater, and now is the time for Colorado’s Democrats, including the most progressive school board members and teachers union leaders, to get on board.
Consider the simple math. For example, Regis Jesuit, a private high school in Centennial, has an annual tuition of $21,850 and an application fee of $400. If the state were to offer all families who applied for admission and were accepted an $8,000 per-student voucher, demand for one of the best private schools in the state would skyrocket. For an upper-middle class family, $8,000 might tip the scale to affordability for four years at Regis for a single child — $87,400 — but probably not.
I am dreaming of a different kind of voucher program, the kind that could drastically change lives, offer kids an exit ramp from poverty and rectify decades of inequity where pockets of poverty have trapped kids in the worst performing schools.The state of Colorado has given the Commerce City school district years to improve, but data shows that the Adams 14 School District is still failing students.
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