Editor,
Rachel Lassman provided an intriguing guest perspective column (Oct. 19) about benefits of school choice in California, and her support for an initiative called the Educational Freedom Act. I am perplexed, however, in that she cited $14,000 per student from Proposition 98 that would go to each child K-14 to fund their (accredited) school of choice, stating that it wouldn’t cost taxpayers additional money.
Ms. Lassman, is the per-child funding of Prop. 98 based on public school attendance and not privately enrolled students? If so, then wouldn’t we be subject to increased taxation to pay for the approximately 471,000 students currently in the private school system, roughly $6.6 trillion per year?
Ruth Schueler
Foster City
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Parents with children in private schools now pay for public schools through property taxes. They are hit twice. Choice would simply shift what is now spent on state schools.
Thanks for the info, wlydecker. I’m assuming this is also the case with home-schooled kids? Think of how home-schooled kids could benefit from the extra $14,000 not being wasted on public education pension and benefit debt but actually being used “for the kids.”
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