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EDUCATION Backs increased public-school choice, including more publicly funded but independent "charter schools" but opposes vouchers for private schools. Has called for a $43-billion plan of tax credits and deductions to make college more affordable...
...Public-school teachers in Cleveland, Ohio, were getting ready to strike last week over work loads, salary and health-care issues. But at St. Adalbert's, a Catholic primary school on the city's tumbledown east side, it was business as usual. In a room full of first-graders, the rows of African-American boys were dressed in shirts and ties. When principal Lydia Harris entered, they stood at attention to greet her in unison. In the hallway outside, second-grade girls were heading quietly to lunch, all dressed in plaid jumpers and saddle shoes. Outside there might be squalor...
...while enrollment has declined, academic performance has not. Numerous studies show that Catholic-school kids do better than their public-school counterparts in reading and math. A 1990 report by the Rand Corp., for instance, found that low-income parochial-school students averaged 803 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, compared with a 642 average in regional public schools. The Catholic-school hierarchy is counting on the spread of vouchers to reverse a long drop in enrollments. Already, non-Catholics make up 13.2% of Catholic-school enrollment, thanks to parents who know a good thing when they...
...Catholic schools are famous for imposing the kind of discipline that a lot of public-school teachers can only dream about. Parochial schools are free to reject applicants with a history as troublemakers. "If a child has a disciplinary problem or problems with drugs or weapons, they can just say no on the spot," says Valerie E. Lee, co-author of Catholic Schools and the Common Good. They can also expel unmanageable students more easily than public schools, which must observe a range of legal niceties that don't apply to the private sector...
Clinton: Until we moved to Washington, my daughter had always been in public schools...In the end we all decided she should go to Sidwell Friends, not only because it's an extraordinary school but because she would have a measure of privacy there that she would not have otherwise. On balance, I think the schools are better than they were four years ago...I've been a big proponent of total public-school choice as well as charter schools...It may be very effective politically to use my daughter as an example, but it is not fair because...