Word: du
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days after school bells called students to class around the country, a roster of White House hopefuls gathered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for earnest seminars on the subject. In separate forums, all seven active Democratic campaigners and Republicans Jack Kemp and Pete du Pont debated the single topic of how to boost the failing grades being given to American education...
...favor a free-market approach: tuition tax credits and/or education vouchers for parents to send children to public or even private schools of their choice. The theory is that in a buyers' market, schools would be forced to improve to compete for pupils. At present, says former Delaware Governor du Pont, public schools are monopolies and "monopolies are notoriously inefficient. They become complacent and satisfied...
...Washington, control what is taught in schools and how well. A President can exhort, encourage, prod and deplore, and to some extent use federal aid or its denial to effect changes. But a President Biden could not order school districts to lengthen the class year, nor could a President du Pont force them to adopt his "universal choice" plan...
Some of the ideas that the candidates have proposed are open to serious objection. Gephardt's plan to retarget federal aid toward the fastest- improving schools risks helping good districts to become better while leaving the poor ones to deteriorate even further. Du Pont's "universal choice" goes too far even for some Republicans who accept the principle of inducing competition among schools. Kemp charged that du Pont's plan might cost the Federal Government as much as $25 billion; he promotes choice among public schools only within a given district. But whatever the merits or demerits of the specific...
...Dole, never known as visionaries, are still cautiously waiting to reveal their policy positions. The challenge for Bush is particularly acute: he must forge a mild Declaration of Independence from the President without risking his claim as rightful heir. And as outsiders in a two-man race, Kemp and du Pont can afford to be outspoken as they vie for the allegiance of the conservative faithful...