Issue Position: School Voucher System

Issue Position

expansion is an important element to creating a diverse and well qualified employment pool, a factor that many job creators look for when deciding on which state to locate in. Front line teachers have known for many years that the "one size fits all" educational experience is wasteful and ineffective. The evidence is in the success rate for graduation, college placement and trade school placements. The rapid growth shown by charter schools, private schools and home schooling shows that many parents are engaged and seeking the best opportunity for each student based on their individual talent's and skill's. Competent teachers and parents can develop children as well if not better then the strictly public school model favored by the US Department of Education.

Home Schooling enrollment is growing at a rate 7 times faster than public school enrollment.5 Parents are now voting against a broken public school system with their feet. I return to the idea of standing in the gap for children to make their future brighter. Smaller, local schools -even home schools- provide incentives for exceptional educational outcomes. In the public school arena I support merit awards for the best teachers. We must expect the right outcomes and empower teachers to achieve those goals. Throwing money at this problem is not a solution, all we need do is examine those states where more has been spent than in Arizona with worse graduation and college acceptance rates.

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