This year, public education supporters should anticipate continued attacks on funds that could be used to improve public schools through schemes such as vouchers, tax credits or so-called scholarship programs. It's time to speak out and step up our campaign to protect America's public schools. The National School Boards Association and the National PTA have been outspoken in their opposition to vouchers, but now we need your help to build a chorus and ensure our voices are heard. We need to let our friends and allies in Congress and in school districts across America know they are not alone and to encourage them to stand tall. We need your active involvement to win this fight.
Every dollar invested in a voucher scheme is a dollar drained from our public schools.
Nearly 90 percent of America's schoolchildren are educated in our public schools. Draining badly needed money from our public schools could doom the children left behind in school systems that don't have money to fix their problems. We can improve the public schools. We know what needs to be done. We need to hire more teachers, reduce class sizes, put more computers in more classrooms.