Public Funds for Private Schools: Political and First Amendment Considerations

Wells, Amy Stuart; Biegel, Stuart

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“…In the debate over implementing "choice and free-market" mechanisms to correct the deficiencies of public schools, it is often mentioned that in the eighteenth century, philosophers such as Adam Smith, Thomas Paine and John Stuart Mill had already advanced similar ideas (Wells & Stuart, 1993). Scott Sweetland (2000) noted that Adam Smith argued that the fairest, most efficient method of providing education was for governments to give parents tuition money and let them have the freedom to spend it at whichever school they chose.…”

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The "Private School Advantage" in Argentina

Fischman

2001

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Local actors' perceptions of curricular and management changes in two private schools and one neighboring public secondary school in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, are analyzed. An exploration was conducted of how, within an ideologically and politically pro-reform context and a widespread acceptance of the "private school advantage," principals, teachers, and students in these schools evaluated the changes (or lack of them) in management, teaching, and curriculum orientations of the secondary education sector.

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Fischman

2001

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“…In the late 1950s, economist Milton Friedman promoted the idea of tuition vouchers based on libertarian principles (Wells & Biegel, 1993). In the late 1960s, Christopher Jencks in the U.S.…”

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“…The initiative was launched and supported by Protestant right-wing extremists, including die Ku BQux Klan, in an attempt to thwart the efforts by Catholics and other religious groups to establish private schools. The Oregon law was challenged, and in 1925 the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Pierce v. The Society of Sisters that parents had the right to send their children to private-religious or secular-schools (Wells & Biegel, 1993). The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the G.I.…”

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“…Bill most closely resembled a federal tuition voucher or scholarship 33 program for parents with children in private elementary and secondary schools, which explains why present-day voucher advocates are quick to compare their proposals with this bill and why President Bush chose to call his 1992 voucher proposal the G.I. Bill for Children (Wells & Biegel, 1993).…”

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“…The bill was defeated. In 1963, President Kennedy proposed another similar bill, excluding dollars for parochial schools, which was also defeated by Congress (Wells & Biegel, 1993 This legislation doubled the federal government's expenditures on education in such a way that it allowed a compromise on public aid to parochial schools. The compromise centered around what later came to be known as the "child-benefiit theory," a policy argument that attempted to side step the church-state issue by targeting fimds directly to needy children rather than directly to religious schools (Wells & Biegel, 1993).…”

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In America's culture wars denominations increasingly ally with one another despite differences in theology, church organization, and membership. But these developments are not reflected in America's private K-12 school system or in patterns of public aid for children who attend them where divisions between religious traditions remain stark. I demonstrate, by means of an analysis of critical junctures in American political development supported by statistical analysis, that Catholics who desire a religious education for their children have historically tended to exit for the parochial sector while Evangelicals having similar desires lobbied for reform of the public school system. These differential group responses stem from differing conceptions of identity and belonging, theological understanding, and institutional structure. In American education policy, differences between religious groups are surprisingly tenacious.

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Public Funds for Private Schools: Political and First Amendment Considerations

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

The "Private School Advantage" in Argentina

The "Private School Advantage" in Argentina

The feasibility of charter schools in the United States: a national study

The Exit-Voice Choice: Religious Cleavages, Public Aid, and America's Private Schools

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