Pros And Cons Of Education School Vouchers

With the 2016 election over, the United States will get new policies, laws, and staff that will affect the country. With the newly elected president, comes with a newly elected Secretary of Education, Betsy Devos. Mrs. Devos has clearly stated her ideas and intentions to increase the performance of the United States education. She has mention through the media that she would like to eliminate common core method of teaching, but one intention she has may have profound effect to the nation. That intention Mrs. Devos would like to establish is to have the nation to fully adopt the education school vouchers system. This emerging issue greatly interests me as I work for a school district and currently working on my teaching credential. This voucher …show more content…
The intention of the education vouchers is to allow students from a poor performing school to have the ability to attend another school that can provide better education. The vouchers can act as a scholarship, allowing low income family to pay their children tuition at private school. Even though the voucher system has been around for sometime in some parts of the United States, its system and the effects is rather unknown to most of the public. With the voucher system becoming a heated topic, I would like to inform the readers the positives, the negatives, and the impact that it might have in our nation. The voucher system is a continuous debate whether it is positive or negative to our society. Yet, many scholars have pointed that the vouchers system can be beneficial impact to our society under the right circumstance. Matthew Carr, who did a study of the effects of vouchers system in Ohio, stated that voucher “purpose is to provide a direct and immediate outlet for students assign to poorly performing traditional schools “(Carr, 2011, pg. 258). Allowing students to exit a poor perform school …show more content…
The voucher will be an emerging issue, but it will quickly be past. Public schools will have to deal with it for a limited time, but it will be the school board on how to solve the issue. Overall, it will not improve the quality of education in the United States. For there to be an improvement in the quality of education, I believe it needs to change at the source of the problem. As education is business, schools will find other ways to attract students and improve their performance that vouchers system will not pull students away from public schools. In time, we can see the full effects of the voucher system, but like I said, I believe it will have little effect to our country