"2:26 PM—Amendment fails on voice vote; when roll call starts, Bramble gets up and states from code that private schools “may” require background checks already. Roll call fails.
2:29 PM—Sen. Jones speaks, gets numbers from fiscal analyst saying the costs of educating voucher students from k-12 would be $327 million; Bramble thinks that amount is a wonderful amount of money. My prediction: in less than 5 years, sponsors will fight to move voucher funding away from the general fund and take it from Uniform School Fund. They’ll say the budget is tight and we need to put all education spending in one fund.
2:33 PM—Sen. McCoy asks whether students could move into the state and qualify for a voucher; Bramble says yes, great, wonderful.
2:35 PM—McCoy amendment tries to get voucher $ back if child comes back to public school. Of course it fails."
Click here to read Davis Didjeridu's full accounting of last Friday's Senate Debate and Vote on Vouchers.
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Sen. McCoy's arguement is reality. Charter schools is an example of how that money stays in the Charter school when a student moves back into a public school. It happens many times in Utah. Public schools do in fact lose money when a child is put back into the system.
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