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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...
...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...
...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...
...heritage. The self-made rhetoric all blurs together as Dukakis talks of his immigrant parents, Dole recalls "my father ran a cream-and-egg station," and Gephardt always mentions that he is the son of a milkman. Although they are the well-born disadvantaged in such a contest, du Pont harks back to his "scraggly" French immigrant forefathers (who arrived in 1799), and Bush points out that he left the comforts of Connecticut as a young man to make it on his own as a Texas wildcatter...
...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...