Op-ed: On Governor’s Voucher Law, Some Claims About Accountability Don’t Add Up

Op-ed: On Governor’s Voucher Law, Some Claims About Accountability Don’t Add Up

Recently, an argument has been going around that goes like this: private schools are accredited to teach students, therefore they’re accountable to taxpayers. The problem with this argument is that it ignores that accreditation as an academic institution has nothing to do with how an entity spends money. Accredited private schools taking vouchers still have no rules for how they spend tax dollars, and no audits either. The authors of the governo…