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...feeling that if an alternative really is out there, can it be so terrible to give it a try?" Like passengers on the Titanic who have just heard about a lifeboat raffle, low-income parents are the most excited about vouchers. Average household income for families participating in Cleveland's school-choice program is $6,597. When 6,500 students applied for the 2,000 grants, the city had to distribute them through a lottery. Sister Theresine Cregan recalls registration night last month at St. Ignatius, the parochial school where she serves as principal. "People came in weeping, they were...
...Cleveland took this controversial step across the church-state line out of desperation. As elsewhere in the U.S., many of its inner-city public schools are a physical and academic dead zone. In California, Colorado and Oregon, voters have turned down voucher initiatives that would extend school choice statewide because most suburban voters are not that unhappy with their public schools. So programs targeted at minority kids have become the new, more ambiguous school-choice battleground--one on which liberals don't always know which side to take. For some poor children, the chance to go to private school could...
...disputed. Catholic schools can be more selective than the public system, so they may end up with a student body more likely to succeed. What everyone agrees on is that the parents of parochial-school children are more involved in the education of their children. One hope behind the Cleveland voucher program, says Bert Holt, who administers it, is that it will draw more parents into an active relationship. "Parents think, 'I'm going to be signing off this tuition payment, which is going to educate my child. I have a stake in this.' For many of these parents, this...
Whether they get to assign them to more refugees from the public schools depends on the U.S. Supreme Court, which is sure to address the question of religious-school vouchers, very possibly in a case growing out of the Cleveland program. Although it still gives no sign of approving direct government payments to sectarian schools, the court in recent years has begun to define rules that might allow parents to pass along government money, so long as the funds are not targeted at any particular denomination and are available to public, private or parochial schools--all tests that Cleveland...
...million customers at the touch of a telephone button or the click of a mouse. Called Integrion, the partnership will phase in such activities as bill paying, electronic lending and stock and bond trading beginning next year. "If we are dinosaurs," says Robert Gillespie, the chief executive of Cleveland-based KeyCorp, "then we're putting competitors on notice that a new breed has evolved with a voracious appetite for expanded market share...