Close Menu
TheHub.news

    The FDA Just Approved the Drug Leucoverin to Treat Autism, Health Experts are Stunned

    By Danielle Bennett

    Dark Chocolate Health Secrets: Medicine or Poison?

    By Kaba Abdul-Fattaah

    Nation Braces for Fallout As Government Shuts Down

    By TheHub.news Staff

    Subscribe to Updates

    Get the latest creative news from FooBar about art, design and business.

    X (Twitter) Instagram YouTube
    X (Twitter) Instagram YouTube
    TheHub.news
    Support Our Work
    • Home
    • Our Story
      • News & Views
        • Politics
        • Injustice
        • HBCUs
        • Watch
      • Food
        • Cuisine Noir
        • soulPhoodie
      • Passport Heavy
      • Travel
      • Diaspora
      • This Day
      • Entertainment
      • History
      • Art
      • Music
    • Healthy
    • Wealthy
      1. Copper2Cotton
      2. View All

      The Time to Buy a Home is Now…Maybe!

      September 11, 2023

      Focus Your Way to Wealth

      April 14, 2023

      What You Might Learn From a $300K Net Worth

      February 6, 2023

      How I built Wealth in a Bear Market

      January 13, 2023

      Black Women’s Unemployment Rate Drops: Here’s What the Latest Report Reveals

      January 13, 2025

      What Does Toxic Positivity Look Like in Personal Finances?

      April 12, 2024

      More Than Money: Cultivate More Flow to Unlock Your Financial Potential

      September 22, 2023

      Music Mogul Akon on How to “Stay Rich”

      September 12, 2023
    • Wise
    • Business
    • Sports
      1. First and Pen
      2. View All

      Where’s the Love for What Todd Bowles Has Built in Tampa?

      September 23, 2025

      Teddy Bridgewater Suspended By Miami Northwestern for 25-26 Season

      September 19, 2025

      Racism Continues to Plague Soccer in Europe

      September 16, 2025

      Terence Crawford Leaves No Doubt That He’s One of Boxing’s Best Ever

      September 15, 2025

      Where’s the Love for What Todd Bowles Has Built in Tampa?

      September 23, 2025

      Teddy Bridgewater Suspended By Miami Northwestern for 25-26 Season

      September 19, 2025

      Racism Continues to Plague Soccer in Europe

      September 16, 2025

      Terence Crawford Leaves No Doubt That He’s One of Boxing’s Best Ever

      September 15, 2025
    • Tech
    • Podcasts
      1. Coach Cass
      2. More Than Money
      3. This Is Lurie Daniel Favors
      4. This is Karen Hunter
      5. Welcome to Knubia
      6. View All

      The FDA Just Approved the Drug Leucoverin to Treat Autism, Health Experts are Stunned

      October 1, 2025

      Dark Chocolate Health Secrets: Medicine or Poison?

      October 1, 2025

      Nation Braces for Fallout As Government Shuts Down

      October 1, 2025

      This Day in History: September 30th

      September 30, 2025

      The FDA Just Approved the Drug Leucoverin to Treat Autism, Health Experts are Stunned

      October 1, 2025

      Dark Chocolate Health Secrets: Medicine or Poison?

      October 1, 2025

      Nation Braces for Fallout As Government Shuts Down

      October 1, 2025

      This Day in History: September 30th

      September 30, 2025

      The FDA Just Approved the Drug Leucoverin to Treat Autism, Health Experts are Stunned

      October 1, 2025

      Dark Chocolate Health Secrets: Medicine or Poison?

      October 1, 2025

      Nation Braces for Fallout As Government Shuts Down

      October 1, 2025

      This Day in History: September 30th

      September 30, 2025

      The FDA Just Approved the Drug Leucoverin to Treat Autism, Health Experts are Stunned

      October 1, 2025

      Dark Chocolate Health Secrets: Medicine or Poison?

      October 1, 2025

      Nation Braces for Fallout As Government Shuts Down

      October 1, 2025

      This Day in History: September 30th

      September 30, 2025

      The FDA Just Approved the Drug Leucoverin to Treat Autism, Health Experts are Stunned

      October 1, 2025

      Dark Chocolate Health Secrets: Medicine or Poison?

      October 1, 2025

      Nation Braces for Fallout As Government Shuts Down

      October 1, 2025

      This Day in History: September 30th

      September 30, 2025

      Women in America: Won’t Anyone Think of the Children?!

      September 24, 2025

      In Class with Carr: “The Hate That Hate Produced”

      September 22, 2025

      In Class with Carr: Juneteenth and the Unyielding Work of Liberation

      June 23, 2025

      “The People vs. The State: Compromise, Confront, Contain or Control?”

      May 26, 2025
    TheHub.news
    Home»Featured»School Vouchers Steal From Black Communities
    Featured

    School Vouchers Steal From Black Communities

    By Kyla Jenée LaceyJune 20, 202405 Mins Read
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Copy Link
    Image credit: ShutterStock
    Share
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Copy Link

    What about the students who do not get a choice?

    While they have been hailed as a savior to minority students, school vouchers are nothing but a violation of separate but equal education and disenfranchise already marginalized Black and brown communities. Schools are funded on state levels and property taxes from the particular area where the school is zoned. If a school is zoned in a poor area, many times it receives less funding, but what does happen when those funds are allocated is that many districts will punish underperforming schools by not “rewarding” them or giving money to higher-performing schools or what has become even more popular the school voucher system.

    School vouchers allow parents to receive up to a pre-set amount of money to send their children to private schools. This sounds like an amazing deal, but the program is so unsound that it will only fail marginalized communities even more.

    There is a flawed logic in taking students from schools that are underperforming on standardized tests and putting them into schools that are not required to follow any federal or state educational guidelines. The automatic assumption that private schools are going to provide better educations for poor minority students, especially when the student is put in an environment where they do not easily relate to other students, and the teachers also show even less empathy, is unequivocally problematic, especially when it is at the downfall of the students who get literally, and somewhat figuratively left behind at public schools. 

    School vouchers take the money from already poor and marginalized communities and put it into the hands of already wealthy white people and religious institutions which do not pay taxes. There is also an additional ulterior motive; religious attendance has been in a steady decline, school vouchers are a way to force religion on marginalized students in the hopes that they receive a better education. The guise of vouchers is that marginalized communities are the ones that benefit the most, but just like affirmative action, the people who benefit the most are white, or in this case higher earning families. According to Politico, most of the school voucher money actually goes to wealthier parents because some states do not have income restrictions for taking part in programs; many parents use the program to subsidize the education of children who were already enrolled. “In Florida, 84,505, or 69 percent, of these new voucher recipients were already enrolled in private school. A much smaller group — 16,096, or 13 percent of voucher students — left their public schools to enter the program. Another 22,294 students began kindergarten with a scholarship.” And yes, it is about religion.

    Republican lawmakers, in at least Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee who are more interested in shoving Christianity down the throats of others than actually being good and Christ-like people, found themselves flummoxed that Christianity is not the only religion and have expressed disproval of Muslims schools entering the chat. Again, further confirming that this is just another way to consolidate money and power into the right-wing, white, Christian hands. 

    Image credit: ShutterStock

    This is not to say that there are not many private schools which can and do provide not only a quality but even better education than the average public school, but that is not always the case, especially when there have been many private schools just popping up, without having to have the same credentials for teachers and administration as public schools. Additionally, school vouchers only allow a limited amount of access to quality schools; voucher recipients are not being afforded education to the highest quality private institutions, that do provide life-changing educations. Even with the assistance of school vouchers, many schools’ tuition is much higher than the amount allocated for each voucher. This year, after multiple attempts, Georgia passed its school choice bill, allocating up to $6,500 for each voucher, however in 2024, the average amount of yearly tuition for a private school in Georgia is $11, 961. Furthermore, private schools in the state are not necessarily outperforming public schools by leaps and bounds, especially those that are more affordable. In 2023, the average SAT score for public schools in the state was 1045, but for private schools, it was 1149, with the vast majority of schools with the highest test scores priced outside the voucher range. According to the website Private School Review, which provides in-depth statistics on private schools around the country, there are less than ten private schools in the entire state of Georgia with SATS scores averaging above the public school level, which are affordable with school vouchers, and that includes those that provide additional financial assistance.

    One of the schools is a homeschool with 35 students and most are located in the suburbs of Atlanta, but not in the city.  Even in those suburban areas that are majority Black, the student body populations are overwhelmingly white, and the schools have a much smaller student population. The average private school in the state has about only 200 students. Additionally, private schools are not required to accept every student, and some even have higher tuitions for special needs students.

    If public schools are so bad for students, there is no way that private schools will be able to mitigate the problem.

    The math ain’t mathing.

    As it stands, republican lawmakers are anti-science, anti-history and anti-math, there is no way that they can discern what a quality education, especially for the communities they have and do suppress, looks like.  

    Black communities Black Students Education private schools public schools School Vouchers
    Kyla Jenée Lacey

    Kyla Jenée Lacey is an accomplished third-person bio composer. Her spoken word has garnered tens of millions of views, and has been showcased on Pop Sugar, Write About Now, Buzzfeed, Harper’s Bizarre, Diet Prada, featured on the Tamron Hall show, and Laura Ingraham from Fox News called her work, “Anti-racist propaganda.”. She has performed spoken word at over 300 colleges in over 40 states. Kyla has been a finalist in the largest regional poetry slam in the country, no less than five times, and was nominated as Campus Activities Magazine Female Performer of the Year. Her work has been acknowledged by several Grammy-winning artists. Her poetry has been viewed over 50 million times and even used on protest billboards in multiple countries. She has written for large publications such as The Huffington Post, BET.com, and the Root Magazine and is the author of "Hickory Dickory Dock, I Do Not Want Your C*ck!!!," a book of tongue-in-cheek poems, about patriarchy....for manchildren.

    Related Posts

    BBC Fact Checks Trump’s UN Speech and It’s Brutal!

    September 28, 2025

    To Be or Not to Be: Confusion Over a Feminist Identity

    September 27, 2025

    Reflecting on Nikki Giovanni’s Final Work with Kwame Alexander

    September 7, 2025
    Add A Comment

    Comments are closed.

    Recent Posts
    • The FDA Just Approved the Drug Leucoverin to Treat Autism, Health Experts are Stunned
    • Dark Chocolate Health Secrets: Medicine or Poison?
    • Nation Braces for Fallout As Government Shuts Down
    • This Day in History: September 30th
    • Aurora Police Push for Facial Recognition, Critics Warn of Risks to Civil Rights

    Did You Know Actor Danny Glover Was Born on This Day?

    By Shayla Farrow

    Coach Cass: What Is Your Instant Thought About Love?

    By TheHub.news Staff

    Did You Know the Queen of Rock and Roll, Tina Turner, Was Born on This Day?

    By Shayla Farrow

    Did You Know Scholar W.E.B Du Bois Was Born on This Day?

    By Shayla Farrow

    Subscribe to Updates

    A free newsletter delivering stories that matter straight to your inbox.

    About
    About

    Celebrating US from one end of the land to the other. We record our acts, our accomplishments, our sufferings, and our temporary defeats throughout the diaspora. We bring content that is both unique and focused on showing the world our best unapologetically.

    X (Twitter) Instagram YouTube

    The FDA Just Approved the Drug Leucoverin to Treat Autism, Health Experts are Stunned

    By Danielle Bennett

    Dark Chocolate Health Secrets: Medicine or Poison?

    By Kaba Abdul-Fattaah

    Nation Braces for Fallout As Government Shuts Down

    By TheHub.news Staff

    This Day in History: September 30th

    By TheHub.news Staff

    Subscribe to Updates

    A free newsletter delivering stories that matter straight to your inbox.

    © 2025 TheHub.news A 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.