Book contents
- America’s Voucher Politics
- America’s Voucher Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 America’s Foundational Identity Struggles
- 2 Two Dimensions of Attenuated Governance
- 3 The Racial Struggle
- 4 The Religious Struggle
- 5 The Public–Private Struggle
- 6 Tax Credit Scholarships in an Era of Republican Dominance
- 7 Education Savings Accounts and Controversies Beyond
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Index
7 - Education Savings Accounts and Controversies Beyond
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2020
- America’s Voucher Politics
- America’s Voucher Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 America’s Foundational Identity Struggles
- 2 Two Dimensions of Attenuated Governance
- 3 The Racial Struggle
- 4 The Religious Struggle
- 5 The Public–Private Struggle
- 6 Tax Credit Scholarships in an Era of Republican Dominance
- 7 Education Savings Accounts and Controversies Beyond
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Index
Summary
Yet decades into the twenty-first century, the secularist, communitarian, and race-conscious orders’ hold upon America’s judicial institutions now appears increasingly shaky. Growing partisan alignment within America’s foundational struggles binds the fate of these orders closer to the fortunes of the Democratic Party. Republican Party power lends strength to individualist, accommodationist, and color-blind forces. Policy goals that were once likely to receive an unsympathetic hearing – whether white nativism, religious accommodation, or program privatization – are elevated by the Trump presidency. Hence, there is less need for individualists, accommodationists, and color-blind orders to attenuate the connection between the central government and these policy goals. They can pursue them openly. The passage, growth, and legal durability of doubly distanced tax credit scholarships since 2010 have given legal cover for policymakers and advocates to experiment with new forms of voucher program: education savings accounts (ESAs). ESAs are typically less attenuated in policy delivery than tax credit scholarships.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- America's Voucher PoliticsHow Elites Learned to Hide the State, pp. 165 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020