Kevin Welner is a professor and director of the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of The School Voucher Illusion and School’s Choice, and the editor of Schools of Opportunity.
On February 14, Kevin Welner published Parents know best—except when they don’t on the Washington Post Answer Sheet. The post addresses how parental rights influence the school voucher system. Welner begins,
The news recently broke of an online neo-Nazi home-schooling network called “Dissident Homeschool.” The group is easily mocked as an example of abusive parenting and of home schooling gone wrong. But it’s when combined with another set of recent news stories that we should be worried.
While these racist home-schoolers have been colluding, a separate group of state legislators and governors have been hard at work changing their state laws to divert taxpayer dollars — with no strings attached and no meaningful regulations — toward voucher programs that include these home-schoolers.
Read the full essay at the Washington Post