Why a Chicago school voucher tax-credit program won't ensure student success

Details of the new Illinois school funding agreement, resulting from a bill Gov. Rauner criticized as a bailout of the Chicago Public Schools, remain vague after Mayor’s Emanuel’s press conference today. But talk of $75 million in publicly funded tax credits for private school scholarships in the agreement (as reported by Chicago SunTimes) continues to fuel criticism.

As it should. Voucher programs that allow public money to be used in private or parochial schools fuel materialism in our society, the materialism that makes us believe that the more we pay for something, the better it automatically is....