Ron Paul contra os cheques educação

Alternativas:

Desregulamentação da Educação Privada: Programas, novas escolas, etc.

Municipalização do Ensino Público (ou em Áreas Metropolitanas): Parte do Orçamento de Ministério de Educação passará para os Municípios. Estes poderão decidir entre manter uma parte das Escolas Públicas dirigias para as camadas mais desfavorecidas e privatizar as restantes, ou ainda, implementar um programa limitado e local (e portanto descentralizado) de cheques-educação. Desta forma, cada Município ou Associação de Municípios chegará às soluções mais consensuais para os seus residentes e contribuintes locais, como contraponto a soluções desenhadas centralmente e aplicadas uniformemente.

Crédito de Imposto para todas as despesas em estabelecimentos de educação


"Vouchers are a taxpayer-funded program benefiting a particular group of children selected by politicians and bureaucrats. Therefore, the Federal voucher program supported by many conservatives is little more than another tax-funded welfare program establishing an entitlement to a private school education. Vouchers thus raise the same constitutional and moral questions as other transfer programs. Yet, voucher supporters wonder why middle-class taxpayers, who have to sacrifice to provide a private school education to their children, balk at being forced to pay more taxes to provide a free private education for another child.
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However, accepting the premise that people have a ``right'' to a good of a certain quality logically means accepting government's role in establishing standards to ensure that providers are giving their consumers a ``quality'' product. Thus, in order to ensure that vouchers are being used to fulfilling students' ``right'' to a ``quality'' education (as defined by the government) private schools will be forced to comply with the same rules and regulations as the public schools.

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Several private, Christian schools in my district have expressed concerns that vouchers would lead to increased government control of private education. This concern is not just limited to Christian conservatives; the head of the Jewish Anti-Defamation league opposed the recent DC voucher bill because he feared it would lead to ``...an unacceptable effort by the government to monitor and control religious activities.''
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However, those schools that accept vouchers will have a competitive advantage over those that do not because they will be perceived as being superior since they have the ``government's seal of approval.'' Thus, those private schools that retain their independence will likely be forced out of business by schools that go on the government dole.