Expect more privatization from the voucher supporters
I think Glenden Brown at OneUtah gets it exactly right:
Using tax dollars to pay for private schools will be back. Proponents of voucher schemes don't have any choice but to bring them back — first because they are ideologues who are convinced their ideas are inherently good and when 62% of the people vote against them, the problem is bad communication or flawed implementation or lies spread by some conservative bugabear (think Unions) rather than the possibility that people simply rejected the concept itself. Second because they are trapped in their ideology and that ideology leads to a single conclusion: Privatization.
Conservatives have spent decades convincing themselves that only private entities are efficient, effective and valuable while any government entity is inherently corrupt, inefficient and ineffective. Challenged to improve public schools, they will be ideologically blind to any options other than privatization in some form or another. Vouchers are a back door form of privatization. Expect the next variation to be even less open about the actual goals.



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