Idaho must reject the voucher scheme and recommit to strengthening public schools

Idaho must reject the voucher scheme and recommit to strengthening public schools

Separate but equal is inherently unequal. No amount of mental gymnastics or rationalization will change this fact. Diverting public funds to selective private schools undermines the level playing field Brown vs. Board of Education established over 70 years ago. Idaho’s voucher scheme leads us down a road that will not rewrite history, but it will repeat it. The competing systems now sponsored by legislators and educational privateers and funded …