(The Center Square) – A few days after The Seattle Times editorial board came out against school choice, or vouchers, that give families access to education funding, people – including the two candidates for superintendent of public instruction – are weighing in.
Live Finne, director of the Center for Education at the Washington Policy Center, was sharply critical of The Seattle Times piece and its contention that “private or religious schools could pick the top tier students and athletes and leave the others in public schools with even fewer resources.”
“The research shows that applicants to voucher programs are less advantaged than their peers and come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds,” Finne told The Center Square. “Many are immigrant children and lower income minority children, taking advantage of school choice.”
Finne called the Times piece an attack on private schools and on low-income minority and immigrant children.
Opponents of school choice, she said, falsely argue that traditional public schools will lose funding.