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...fable. Next week more than 400 students from Milwaukee's inner city will begin attending private neighborhood academies with the aid of $2,500 grants from the state of Wisconsin. In November, Oregon will vote on a landmark initiative that would give parents as much as a $2,500 tuition tax credit for each child in a private or religiously affiliated school. Already, students statewide in Minnesota as well as in such widely praised individual school districts as Cambridge, Mass., and New York City's East Harlem can select which public schools they will attend. These are grass- roots manifestations...
Originally known as the "voucher system" and now often referred to under the innocuous shorthand of "choice," the theoretical concept is daringly simple. Instead of funding and administering public schools through stifling bureaucracies, government would provide tuition vouchers for every student. These could be cashed in at any state-certified school -- public, private or perhaps even parochial. Ideally, the result would be that schools of all kinds -- both old and new -- would jostle and compete in the free marketplace...
...Indiana University, Pauley majored in political science and participated in a decorous student walkout during Founder's Day ceremonies, in protest against a proposed tuition increase. She remembers the incident chiefly for the distress it caused her staunch Republican parents: "It was a very low moment for my father." Nor were her parents thrilled when, after graduating from college a semester early, she went to work for John Lindsay's 1972 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, then for the state Democratic Central Committee. "Mom was mad at me all summer," she says. "My father was at least pleased that...
According to sources at various universities,Harvard has also taken the lead in responding tothe current Justice Department investigation ofalleged tuition-fixing at colleges. Harvard VicePresident and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54reportedly wrote the majority of a legal brief thecolleges filed with the Federal authorities
...Class Dorin Vanderjack, 20, of Redding, Calif., left his catering job at a Holiday Inn to join the Army. After two years of racking up credits at the local community college, he was ready for a four-year school and found the Army's offer of $22,800 in tuition assistance too tempting to turn down. "There's no possible way I could save that," he says. "This forced me to grow...