Neovouchers: The debate continues
Here’s the latest in a debate on tax credits for private school — dubbed “neovouchers” — that started with this post that I wrote enttitled, “Welfare for the rich? Private school tax credit programs expanding.” Jason Bedrick of the Cato Institute wrote a dissenting March 1st statement on the Hoover Institution’s Education Next Blog in support of these tax credit programs, and in turn, Kevin Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center, housed at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education, responded to Bedrick in this post. Bedrick took on Welner about his piece in this post on the Education Next Blog, and here is Welner’s latest response. If you read it all, you should have a good education on neovouchers, Welner is the author of the 2008 book “NeoVouchers: The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling.”.By Kevin Welner
In response to my March 2nd post on the Answer Sheet, Mr. Bedrick of the Cato Institute posted a “rejoinder” on the Hoover Institution’s Education Next blog. Below, I respond directly to some of the claims made by Mr. Bedrick. But I first want to point out why th