OKC Archbishop Coakley Calls For Education Savings Accounts
Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul S. Coakley calls for education savings accounts
by Rick Green
Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul S. Coakley would like the state to pick up part of the tab for parents who want to switch their children from public to private school.
“The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and I personally support strong public schools; at the same time, we support parental choice in education,” he said in a letter Friday to the Legislature and Gov. Mary Fallin.
“In the present environment, we don’t want our Catholic schools to become preserves for the elite or wealthy, but rather be accessible to all.”
Under pending legislation for “education savings accounts,” or “ESAs,” a portion of the money the state spends to publicly school a child would follow that child if a parent chose to enroll the child in a private school.