School Vouchers And Outsourcing Discrimination

From Forbes.com

Aside from questions about educational quality or who exactly benefits from school vouchers, one thing has become abundantly clear: school vouchers have put taxpayers in the position of footing the bill for a great deal of discrimination.

It has become standard for school voucher laws to include language that explicitly prohibits state government from interfering with how voucher-accepting private schools operate, including the criteria they exercise for accepting or retaining students. Where anti-discrimination laws governing voucher schools remain in place, schools have sued to be excused from such regulation.

Just sampling a few states shows the issue. All of the following examples are schools that have accepted school voucher funds.

Pennsylvania

Providence Christian Academy is a religious institution providing an education in a distinct Christian environment, and it believes that its biblical role is to work in conjunction with the home to mold students to be Christlike. On those occasions in which the atmosphere or conduct within a particular home is counter to or in opposition to the biblical lifestyle the school teaches, the school reserves the right, within its sole discretion, to refuse admission of an applicant or to discontinue enrollment of a student.

Providence Christian School, Chambersburg, Student Application

When parents enroll a child in a Catholic school in the diocese they agree that they will not publically [sic] act in opposition to Catholic teaching. Notification of a student’s determination to undergo a sex change procedure or that a student has undergone the procedure (condition #2 as described above) would violate that agreement. The student would be ineligible to attend or remain in attendance in a Catholic school.

Bishop of Harrisburg, Policy adopted: January 1, 2015

There are more— many more. Read the full piece here.