Randi Weingarten Is Worried the Closure of the Education Department Would Boost School Choice Funding

‘And frankly, what we are seeing in all the programs that are now extended in terms of vouchers, they don’t work for kids’

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    WEINGARTEN: "We know, for example, what Texas would do."
    JONG-FAST: "Right. We do."
    WEINGARTEN: "They'll use it for vouchers. So they won't give it to the kids who have it now. They'll just give it for vouchers."
    JONG-FAST: "Catholic schools. Religious schools."
    WEINGARTEN: "And frankly, what we are seeing in all the programs that are now extended in terms of vouchers, they don’t work for kids. They basically go right now, it becomes a tax credit for people who already are sending their kids to private school. So, it's income redistribution."