Public Forum LetterArticle Last Updated: 09/29/2007 12:33:03 PM MDT
What perfect irony! Part 4 of the Sutherland Institute's pro-voucher "essay" (which was published as paid advertising on Page A18 of the Sept. 23 Tribune) faced another large ad for "$99 Cars."
I hope that all Tribune readers have taken the time to go through the full text of HB148 that was printed in the Sept. 19 Tribune. There are several red flags that we all need to be concerned with. Prominent are: Parents accepting the tuition "scholarship" automatically are refusing services pursuant to the Federal Individuals With Disabilities Act; the State Board of Education must "cross-check enrollment lists of scholarship students, school districts, and youth in custody to ensure that scholarship payments are not erroneously made," and the board must also "investigate complaints and convene administrative hearings for any alleged violation" concerning the board's right to deny a private school permission to enroll "scholarship" students, or its right to interrupt or withhold disbursement of "scholarship" payments.
The last two flags should be neon red, since they will no doubt require the creation of an entirely new bureaucracy to comply.
But what does one expect when one buys a $99 car?
John R. Peterson
Salt Lake City
The last two flags should be neon red, since they will no doubt require the creation of an entirely new bureaucracy to comply.
But what does one expect when one buys a $99 car?
John R. Peterson
1 comment:
I didn't find this letter convincing. Peterson's first point about disabled protections seems to miss the point of vouchers: PRIVATE schools and parental choice. (Private homes don't have to abide by disability laws either, but we still send paychecks home with government employees to "fund" those homes.)
I think vouchers will help public schools, so students with disabilities stand to benefit.
I'm concerned about the creation of new bureaucracies, too, as Mr. Peterson seems to be. However, not all bureaucracies are bad. The bureaucracies needed to enforce disability legislation might be one such example.
Fortunately for Mr. Peterson, children can still go to public schools where there is no bureaucracy. /eye roll
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