💫 The More You Know 🌈 See below for where @vea4kids stands on vouchers: Education Savings Accounts (AKA Vouchers) OUR POSITION 🍎 VEA believes that public funds should not be used in any form to support non-public elementary or secondary education. Programs and policies, such as ESAs and other voucher systems, are detrimental to public education as they deplete resources from our already under-funded public schools. VEA further believes that these programs are in direct conflict with the Virginia Constitution, which authorizes the use of public funds only for public and nonsectarian private schools. 🍎 In requiring local school divisions to transfer the bulk of student’s state Standards of Quality (SOQ) funding to an outside “Education Savings Account,” these vouchers would deprive our public schools of critically-needed resources. 🍎 The funds that would be withdrawn from the public school system bear no relationship to the cost of the private education to be provided. Since ESA...