10 reasons school board members may use to advocate against vouchers. Public schools and taxpayers will lose. Both are unacceptable. Taxpayers can't afford a voucher system. When a voucher program was established in Cleveland, Ohio, more than a quarter of the vouchers went to students already enrolled in private schools.
Public schools have to accept all applicants.
Private schools don't. Parents already have lots of choices over the school their children attend. Parents may transfer their child to another campus in the same or in a neighboring school district, or enroll their child in a magnet school, open enrollment charter school, campus charter school, or program charter. Vouchers would create new choice for relatively few students at the expense of all students. Vouchers empower private schools, not parents.