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Wolfram The prime motivation behind the movement to parental choice in education is not efficiency or the need to save money, but the desire to improve the education of children. Michigan Constitutional Restraints on Parental Choice 15 III. Expanding Parental Choice with a Universal Tuition Tax Credit 16 IV. Impact of the UTTC on State and Local Finances 17 Appendix I: A Model of School Finance * 18 Private and Public Financing of Schools * 19 Private School Costs vs. Public School Costs (this page) 20 A Model of State and Local Finance: Assumptions 21 Universal Tuition Tax Credit Dynamics 22 The Fiscal Impact of the Universal Tuition Tax Credit 23 Appendix II. Public School Costs 29 Download PDF A close analysis of public and private school costs shows that commonly-used measures do not accurately reflect the true costs of educating children in the two systems. Neither the prevailing "tuition" costs nor the commonly discussed "per pupil expenditures" fully take into account all costs. Adding these yields current expenditures for Michigan's government school system that exceed $11 billion annually. Thus, the actual burden of the government school system on the taxpayers is significantly higher than the foundation allowance might imply. Private school tuition is about half that of the average per pupil revenue of public schools. Most religious schools receive significant contributions from their sponsoring organizations to support their operations. Many also receive volunteer time and services from parents. Once all private and taxpayer-funded costs are included for both systems, the ratio of total public school costs to total private school costs is less clear, but is probably about 2:1. It should be noted, however, that the prime motivation behind the movement to parental choice in education is not efficiency or the need to save money, but the desire to improve the education of children.
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