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Professor of Education Richard F. Elmore and Elliot Mincberg, vice president of the People for the American Way Foundation, however, both labeled vouchers a diversion from real problems that demand immediate attention in the inner cities of America...
...Elmore and Mincberg emphasized that public schools will be hurt, both in the immediate and distant future, by the institution of voucher programs...
...Mincberg estimated that if a national voucher program were instituted $16 billion would go to students already in private schools. Elmore suggested that, rather than instituting a voucher system, school districts should concentrate on increasing performance educational performance standards to improve public schools...
Elmore and Mincberg both pointed to Public School Districts two and four in New York City as examples of the way that public schools can be reformed without the use of vouchers...
According to Mincberg, rather than improve public schools, vouchers "would leave most kids in a very bad situation in public schools that will keep getting worse...