{"id":4201,"date":"2011-08-14T15:48:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T22:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momofftrack.com\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2022-07-03T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T18:13:37","slug":"dougco-voucher-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momofftrack.com\/2011\/08\/dougco-voucher-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Dougco Voucher Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m mad. Hopefully, you will be mad too when you are done with this. Because it is about 500 kids getting caught in a political machine.<\/p>\n

Over the past 6 months I’ve been watching the controversy going on over school vouchers<\/strong> in the Douglas County School District here in Colorado. To give you a quick and dirty back story-Dougco, as it is locally referred to, was the first school district in Colorado to approve a voucher system that allows families to take some of the dollars earmarked for their child’s public school education and divert it to a school of their choice. The amount boiled down to $4,500 of the roughly $6,000 alotted to each child in Dougco. The parent could take that ‘scholarship’ and use it to pay for tuition at many area private schools that were approved by the district. The remaining 25% would go towards running the program and potentially offset any school classrooms that had a mass exodus due to the program.<\/p>\n

500 families were funded<\/strong> for this program. Roughly 575 applied<\/strong>. Out of 60,000 students<\/strong> in Dougco! That tells me a heck of a lot of parents are happy with their kids in Dougco schools. Awesome to see that they are doing such a great job that 59,475 families were content<\/strong> to stay where they were, give or take a few.<\/p>\n

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