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In one of her campaign ads, Morgan LaMantia attacks her opponent, Adam Hinojosa, for supporting vouchers for private schools. She argues that such vouchers provide a ticket for rich folks to put their children into private schools on the cheap. She then asserts that such money would be taken from the public schools here in the Valley and would result in higher taxes for local citizens.There are problems with her argument. To begin with, the vast majority of parents who enroll their children in private schools are not rich. If they were, they most certainly wouldn't select schools that spend ...

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