A special education voucher program has the potential not only to help disabled students learn, but also to save scarce state and city dollars. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Marcus Winters, explains how the voucher program in Florida accomplishes just this.
"...all disabled students are eligible for a voucher that is worth the lesser of the amount the public school would have spent on them or the tuition at a chosen private school. The value of the average voucher for disabled students there is $7,295. Not only is this far less than what the state spends to educate a disabled student in a public school, it is even below the state's much lower average per-pupil cost of educating all students, both disabled and regular enrollment. In other words, the public system actually saves money when it pays for students to attend private school, and even more money when those students are disabled."
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