Five reasons vouchers are wrong for Idaho

Out-of-state groups invested over $1 million in Idaho’s primary election in May and defeated 8 opponents of voucher programs.

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The money these groups are spending to defeat legislators in our local areas should be seen as an investment in opening up our education budget to private companies.

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Once voucher dollars become available, new for-profit schools will pop up and many will fail after spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to build their infrastructure (as in Wisconsin).  

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Public schools spend money locally on teachers, nurses, counselors, custodians, librarians, utility companies, bus companies and more. The new for-profit schools that will pop up if vouchers are approved will spend some money in state, but will also certainly send hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars out of state to some of the donors who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on our election. ​

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And when taxpayer dollars in the form of school vouchers flow out of state, we won't have any right to know where that money is going. Voucher programs create opportunities for our taxpayer dollars to go to out of state CEOs and stockholders without us even knowing. ​​

Reason #4 - We won't know what we are paying for