Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: "Something So Close to Vouchers" Chapter 3: Preferring Preferences: Taxes as Policy Instruments Chapter 4: Current Knowledge on the Nature and Effects of Tax Credit Voucher Policies Chapter 5: Taxing the Establishment Clause: Exploring the Constitutional Issues Chapter 6: Policy and Political Implications Chapter 7: Future Prospects: Tinkering with Utopia Chapter 8 Appendix: Tax Credit Voucher Statutes
Kevin G. Welner is associate professor of education and director of the Education and the Public Interest Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
A terrific book exposing how tuition tax credits-a voucher by
another name-work to change education from a public to a private
good, endangering democracy along the way. Welner masterfully
explains how tuition tax credits hide state governments' increasing
support for private and sectarian schools with public money. He
provides a concise, clear, and scholarly description of what these
policies are, how they got here, and the damage they do. Everything
you wanted to know about why tuition tax credits are growing more
common and more dangerous, written by one the nation's most
credible scholars.
*David C. Berliner, Regents' Professor Emeritus, Arizona State
University*
Tuition tax credits reveal their distinctive characteristics only
when exposed to light shone from several different perspectives:
the law, philosophy, and empirical research. Welner is one of the
few persons capable of analyzing this movement to privatize public
education from each of these points of view.
*Gene V Glass, Regents' Professor, Arizona State University*
A credible, overdue look at tax credit-based school choice
programs. Welner's scholarship is exceptional and worth
consideration....Recommended.
*CHOICE, June 2009*
NeoVouchers is the clearest treatment of tuition tax credits I have
ever read. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the
future of educational reform and with the dangers that are
associated with what has too often become conventional wisdom about
how to do it.
*Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and
Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of
Wisconsin, Madison; author,
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