We're part of the first private school voucher program in the country, and we can tell you with our lived experience that it disproportionately benefits wealthy students who already attend private schools, and they Voucher programs sap monies from our public schools, especially hurting disabled students and rural students with disabilities. Voucher schemes even worsen the segregation of our schools. And we saw the minute that Brown versus the Board of Education was passed in 1954, we immediately saw these white academies in the south that discriminated against African American attendance. (06:39–06:46)
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Asserts that voucher programs divert funds from public schools, negatively impacting disabled and rural students.
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