Aug 14
Utah’s Vouchers…at Risk.
2009 at 11:32 pm | posted by Rep. Craig Frank 6 comments
Utah’s very successful voucher program is at risk.
The New Century Scholarship (or Voucher) has been a useful private school funding tool (funded with taxpayers’ dollars) since an amendment was added to the original 1999 program. The private voucher component was added during the 2000 General Session of the state legislature in HB23 by Rep. Brad King (D-Price), allowing for scholarship recipients to use the funds at Brigham Young University and Westminster College.
Certainly, the passage of this higher ed voucher (amendment) will be one of Rep. King’s greatest legislative victories.
August 15th, 2009 at 12:40 am
except recipients can use funds at BYU which already gets funding from tithe payers so congratulations for double dipping into my wallet. Wait, I think I’m late on my tithing for August so scratch that.. Maybe you’re just taking tax revenue.
August 15th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Aaron, the difference is that one source of funding is voluntary and one is mandatory.
August 15th, 2009 at 7:59 am
I know, I’m just taking cheap shots at BYU where I can.
August 15th, 2009 at 8:24 am
[...] misrepresented, intentionally or unintentionally, the financial limits associated with this scholarship/voucher program. And, someone’s gotta pay for the associated shortfall. Who will that be? The [...]
August 17th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
This program amounts to forced charity and should be eliminated. There is nothing wrong with scholarships, but they should come from the private sector. Keep government where it belongs.
August 19th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Quite a stretch to call a scholarship program a “voucher,” isn’t it?
With a real voucher, public school kids leave their assigned school and go to a private school, taking the public school’s money with them. But with higher ed, there isn’t an “assigned school” to leave.
Oh, but wait, you have to call this a voucher to try to legitimize those other kinds of vouchers that you’re always pushing but everybody hates.