Public schools are underfunded as voucher programs to subsidize private schools with taxpayer dollars surge.
Then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies before the House Appropriations Committee's Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee in Washington, D.C., on February 27, 2020.
“We can no longer tolerate billionaires and multinational corporations receiving massive tax breaks and subsidies while children in America are forced to go to understaffed, underresourced, and underfunded public schools,” Sanders continued. “On this 70th anniversary year of, let us recommit to creating an education system that works for all of our people, not just the wealthy few.”
“The expansion of private school voucher programs forces very real tradeoffs. Money spent on private school vouchers could instead be used to hire teachers, raise wages, hire school counselors, and invest in high-quality academics for students,” reads the new report, which estimates that “Arizona could hire 15,730 more public K-12 teachers with the money it is instead spending on private school vouchers.
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