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Administrators Perceptions of School Vouchers

PUBLIC SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS' PERCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL VOUCHERS:

The controversy over whether the federal government should provide parents with vouchers allowing them to choose the school to which they will send their children is, according to Hilliard (1996) showing no signs of waning. In this regard, Hilliard reports that those opposing vouchers feel that it will rob the poorest schools of the monies they are most in need of, making it impossible to adequately serve the students whose parents decide to keep them in the public school.

Moreover, it is felt by opponents of school vouchers that the students most likely to remain in public schools will be the poorest and the least academically able because private schools will mostly refuse to take them. There are also some concerns that parents will not be able to adequately decide which schools best serve their children (Hilliard, 1996), and the constitutionality of these programs (Kemerer, 1995).

On the other side of the debate, Hilliard (1996) reports, are the arguments that the public schools are not only failing children academically, they are actually physically unsafe for students. Vouchers are said to provide students with an immediate way out of the circumstances of crumbling buildings, incompetent teaching staff, and unsafe hallways.

It is also noted by those in favor of school vouchers that private schools have shown good track records in working with poorer students and that if parents send their children to these schools, the competition will act as incentive for the public schools to improve their buildings, their staff, and the degree of safety they provide students. The idea here is if that if public schools can't compete, they ought to go out of business anyway.

Noting that dissatisfaction with public education has caused many parents to seek schooling alternatives or to demand a stronger voice in choosing their children's public schools, Martin (1...

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