"It doesn't promote better schooling for low-income [kids]," says Martin Carnoy. "It's going to benefit new private-school providers and current private-school providers…. It's welfare for the rich."
The decades-old school choice debate is back, this time in Nevada. Under a Republican-sponsored plan that passed earlier this year, families can use state education funding for private schools, virtual schools, or homeschooling costs. But instead of limiting these so-called education savings accounts to its most needy students, Nevada has left them open to every student in the state—a plan that opponents say will drain funding from already struggling public schools.
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Martin Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford. His work on inequality in education was recently cited in a column in The New York Times. by Eduardo Porter. He is the co-author of a new report for the Economic Policy Institute: Bringing it back home: Why state comparisons are more useful than international comparisons for improving U.S. education policy.
