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...rising rebellion. Senior economic advisers led a hushed but urgent campaign to prevent the influential Business Roundtable from endorsing a more modest alternative to the President's 1,300-page plan. White House economics chief Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman telephoned insurance-company CEOs at Prudential, Chubb, American International Group and CNA to urge them not to endorse the rival plan, backed by Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee and Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. But the Administration's pre-emptive strike met with resistance. Late Friday an informal straw poll of the Roundtable's policy committee turned...
...team of experts from the fields of education, business and journalism has been working out the details of the school system since March. The eclectic group includes Chester Finn Jr., a former Assistant Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration; John Chubb, an expert on government and public policy; and Lee Eisenberg, the former editor in chief of Esquire...
...Courtney Chubb...
...religious schools from participating in Choice experiments would automatically toss out Roman Catholic parochial schools -- the often successful large-scale competitor to troubled inner-city public schools. As political scientist Chubb, one of the authors of the Brookings plan, says, "We would insist that if there is genuine Choice, there has to be genuine competition. If there is competition, there must be alternative providers other than the existing public schools...
...debate over educational vouchers can be seen as a symptom of America's loss of faith in liberal government itself, for public schools have always been the collective institution most closely monitored by the people. If, as Chubb and Moe argue, a free market is the only antidote to educational bureaucracy, then virtually all government programs, save tax collection, are implicitly called into question. Yet the crisis in the schools is so severe that vouchers must be seriously considered, which is why Dick and Jane seem well on their way toward becoming free-market conservatives...