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Over the long haul, Clinton would fully fund Head Start and institute a program of national service under which students would repay college-tuition loans by serving their communities for two years. Those two programs alone would require close to $10 billion, a cost that Clinton suggests could be covered by reducing defense spending and by imposing private-industry performance standards on government programs, with yearly 3% funding cuts mandated across the board...
School choice experiments generally fall into three categories: those that enable parents to transfer children to other schools within their district; those in which parents can place their children in other districts and those that offer parents public money to pay partial tuition costs at a private school...
...worst choice plan is a voucher system in which public money is used to pay partial tuition costs to private schools. Proponents dream that the magic of the free market will increase competition and bring about the best possible results for schools. But the results are more likely to resemble our private health care system, in which people who use vouchers in the form of Medicare or Medicaid get vastly inferior care. Moreover, the Andovers, Exeters and Deerfields will still pick the kids they want, making a great influx of inner-city kids unlikely...
ROTC provides Harvard students with tuition, fees, uniforms and a percentage of their book costs. In return, students commit to year-round training sessions and four years of military service after graduation...
Although the spending trend is off compared to spending during the intense 28-candidate election in 1989, the amounts many candidates are spending still approach the costs of a new car or a year's college tuition. And the reason, according to Jane sullivan, is that "it's expensive...