The Texas Tribune and ProPublic have an important investigative piece on how private school bosses in Texas appropriate and misuse public funds to grow their businesses, hire their relatives, buy products and services from cronies, and take extravagant vacations—all without breaking any laws.
The voucher scammers' “legal" diversion of public funds expands the form of illegal leeching done by charter schools with zero public oversight to enforce laws governing public school finance. With taxpayer funds now going to private schools where state education statutes do not apply, there are not even any laws to ignore.
And so voucher laws further undergird the unspoken theory and practice of viewing public monies, whether for education or otherwise, as unrestricted sources of welfare, not for the needy, but for the needless.
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