However, vouchers will allow taxpayers dollars to be transferred to private schools that do not have to reveal how they spend the money. By channeling tax dollars into private schools, the control that all taxpayers currently have over the expenditure of these funds would be shifted to individual consumer-driven choices. In effect, vouchers will disenfranchise voters and prevent them from having any say over the education program they support with their tax dollars, including any say in the quality, content, religious orientation, or moral values a particular school selects. In addition, voucher-redeeming private schools do not have to operate under the same rules as public schools when it comes to admissions requirements. For example, under federal law, local school districts must provide special services to children with disabilities at a level that is appropriate to meet their needs.
Private schools have no such requirement.
They accept far fewer children with disabilities and typically serve only those students who can be educated at lower cost. Vouchers waste taxpayer money Under voucher schemes, the public is under pressure to subsidize two school systems. Additionally, the public will have to pay the new cost of operating the bureaucracy that will be needed to implement and oversee a voucher program. Students already enrolled in private schools could become eligible to receive vouchers, essentially requiring taxpayers to begin subsidizing the private school tuition of students from wealthy families. Other Reasons to Reject Vouchers Vouchers give false hope to poor families because most vouchers are not enough to cover the full costs of private school tuition.