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Does funding school choice cause inflation?

  • Writer: Peter Lorenzi
    Peter Lorenzi
  • Mar 1, 2023
  • 2 min read

This guy thinks so, when he claims, "The Cost of School Vouchers? Sky-High Inflation; It’s Economics 101: costs increase when the government floods the private sector with money." But he's wrong. And here is my response, and why he's really wrong.


Nonsense. Giving money to parents rather than public school bureaucrats is NOT a case of "the government floods the private sector with money." Rather, it is funding the education of the public rather than of the public school administrations. Even public school administrators recognize that the government is transferring or "taking money" from them and they are angry because they were used to getting the entire flood of the money, regardless of how well they educate.


The illustration of the private school raising tuition is simple nonsense as well. The author does not understand how tuition is set and he has it completely wrong when he claims that they raise tuition instead of expanding. And he ignores the billions of dollars in private tuition discounts paid by those who do pay the full tuition, that goes to DEI preferences.


The only evidence I need as to the success of school choice is the fact that with choice, even poor people can have the choice of where to educate their children, just as the rich do. Having a choice is what drives te public schools because the parents don’t all choose the public school, given the option that includes resources to implement the choice. Having ‘Choice’ without money is not having a choice.


In any case, public school are not public; they are open only to residents. Not at all inclusive, they are highly discriminatory against the general public.


When I worked at the university of Kansas, a neighbor who was not a KU employee, believed that he should be able to use the college gym, library, etc, since he was a taxpayer, he was part of the public and KU was a public university.


Public education means educating the public, not funding ‘public school,’ their administrators and their teacher unions.


The payers are full of news on expanding school choice, after Covid policies and now with more Republicans running many states.


At the heart of it, the author does not understand the causes of inflation, supply and demand, tuition, or how private schools make their choices. He also ignores the fact that were "public" schools wroth supporting, parents would choose them under a pure voucher system. The evidence shows that millions of parents pass on free "public" education and make the tough choice to pay tuition to send their kids to a school where they have a choice. Vouchers give poor parents the same option, the one they dont have now.

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