Vouchers = More Choice? Less Accountability?
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Two-part Series Cuts Through Voucher Claims
(KCPW News) Scan the campaign advertisements about school vouchers and you'll find lots of claims. Yesterday KCPW analyzed the numbers behind the ads. In part two of our series, KCPW's Julie Rose looks at claims about school choice and accountability.
Yesterday, KCPW did an impartial analysis of financial claims being made about vouchers. Click here to listen.
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1. John Dougall said:
It would be misguided to imply there is effective accountability within public schools. There are many regulations, meaningless testing requirements, and useless reporting, but if accountability is measured by student achievement (for each and every student) then there is poor accountability with little incentive to change. No amount of top-down regulation can compensate for ineffective teachers in the classroom or uninvolved parents.
The result? The effective teachers still feel an accountability to the parents (as they should), but their burden increases and enjoyment decreases as they shoulder the workload for peers who don't do their job and parents who are more interested in daycare than learning. The involved parents watch a system that can't/won't adapt to meet the learning needs of their students, leaving those students at a greater and greater academic disadvantage in our highly competitive world. The bureaucracy focuses more effort on compliance with process, rather than assessment of achievement.
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