Comments on: ‘Education savings accounts’: a game-changing idea

By: Capitol Daily Memo: education savings accounts bill unveiled | Sutherland Daily

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:54:31 +0000

[...] education savings accounts bill was made public today. As we have written in previous posts (here and here), education savings accounts (ESAs) are a game-changing idea that could improve public [...]

By: Education savings accounts offer a way to reward high achievers | Sutherland Daily

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:33:07 +0000

[...] few months ago I wrote about the game-changing potential of education savings accounts (ESAs), an education funding proposal that Representative John [...]

By: Derek H. Monson

Derek H. Monson — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:25:00 +0000

Your question about home school and private school students is a good one. It’s a question that we have as well, but that we haven’t yet clarified with Rep. Dougall.

As long as they’re paying the same taxes in support of public education as everyone else, I would hope that there would be some way to include them. Otherwise, I think that home school and private school families should pay a lower state income tax rate. They should pay something in support of public education, but it should take into account their decision to be educationally self-reliant.

By: Shumaces

Shumaces — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:52:00 +0000

This is a great idea! We’ve always thought that the parents should be able to choose and be in control of their children’s education. And rather than just dump it into the school mandated by the state that the child attend, the education would really improve, if they had to live up to a standard of excellence in order to have the child attend their particular school.

But then the laws have to back out and let the teachers perform to their ability rather create curriculum based on things like no child left behind. Let those teachers actually teach what they know that they can, if left alone to do so. Tenure would not be the important, deciding factor as to who could teach and who could not. It would become a matter of teaching excellence.

I’m also wondering how that would affect home schoolers and private schools? Do parents get to use the $6,000 to educate their children and give them opportunities outside the public education system? Just curious.