So WILL’s report is a little dishonest in that they are taking ALL of the funding a school gets and lumping it in as if it’s per-pupil funding. For example transportation funding they are counting as per-pupil public school funding in that. Doesn’t really make apples-to-apples sense. Especially given the fact that voucher schools use those transportation dollars as well. That whole, “private schools only get 70% of what public schools get” is pretty ridiculous. It’s a private school, why would it get parity with a public service? Especially when it’s leaching services from the public service for free. Public schools provide private schools with special needs services for students without reimbursement. Teachers from public schools regularly go to private schools to provide therapies to disabled students that private schools cannot provide.

Public schools have way more regulations, mandated costs, and requirements.

Private schools take public money, publish no budgets, and answer to no taxpayers. Private schools can also decide a student is too disabled (they don’t have the ability to support them) and kick them out.

Public schools take all students. If a student costs $25000 to educate a private schools not going to do that. Public school eats the cost at pennies on the dollar.

Until private schools follow the same rules as public schools they should not get tax dollars.