- Public funds should not be used to finance private or religious schools.
- Calling voucher proposals "choice" is a cruel hoax. The major beneficiaries would be those who have already chosen - the vast b ulk of the voucher money would go to the people who are already in private schools. In other words, the state would spend a lot of money without improving anyone's education.
- Public education is doing an excellent job under sometimes difficult circumstances. Public schools should be improved, not abandoned.
- Allows private or religious schools to deny admission to special needs children. Permits them to deny access to children with behavioral problems or to dump them on public schools.
- Ridge voucher amounts: $1,400 for rfamilies earning less than $15,000, $700 per year for families earning more than $15,000 taxable income. In five short years, Ridge will raise the ceiling to $75,000 in taxable income.
- No auditing process for public tax dollars has been provided. They can spend the money without accountability.
- The selection process in many private and religious schools is discriminatory in that it provides an unfair advantage to people already in private schools.
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