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...district, so that the parents can send their child to a school of their choice, whether it be public, private, magnet or parochial. The idea was conceived by parents in inner cities who wanted their children to escape the poor performance of neighborhood schools. Vouchers have been implemented in Cleveland, Milwaukee and throughout Vermont and Maine. Future states may include Arizona and Minnesota...
However, the most troubling aspect of the Cleveland voucher experiment has nothing to do with test scores and everything to do with the danger that vouchers could undermine the role that public schools have played in American life. Public schools have long held the promise of being America's great equalizer, mixing students of different races, classes and religions in a single student body. At their best, public schools have united diverse groups of students, many of them immigrants, by passing on the nation's shared civic heritage, from George Washington to George Washington Carver. Public schools have the ability...
...Cleveland's voucher program threatens to replace the single-heritage credo of public schools with a system that teaches one faith in one school and a competing faith in another. That's because the hard truth of the city's voucher program is that the choice it offers parents is mainly a choice of religious schools. The problem is that Cleveland's vouchers are capped at $2,250--not unusual for a voucher, but far too little money to allow real choice in the private school market. A poor parent who wanted to use a voucher at the Hathaway Brown...
...parents use vouchers in suburban public schools. Ohio's voucher law was written to allow vouchers to be used in the suburban schools, but only in those that agreed to take them. Bert Holt, director of Cleveland's voucher program, had high hopes when she made the rounds of suburban school districts to persuade them to sign up. But not one suburb agreed to accept students from the city's heavily poor and minority student population. Result: 80% of Cleveland's vouchers are being used in religious schools...
...seen an upswing in patients since the journal article came out. Fortunately, he explains, GERD is usually not serious. Only about 5% of sufferers get Barrett's esophagus, and only 5% of those go on to develop cancer. However, as Dr. Joel Richter, head of gastroenterology at the Cleveland Clinic, points out, "The only way to be sure you don't have these conditions is to have an endoscopy...