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...news that a doting grandfather would struggle for his family. What's surprising is that he discovered school vouchers--cash stipends that can be used to help pay private-school tuition--from a black community activist like Sorrell. For a long time, politically active African Americans and the Democratic Party that most of them belong to have looked upon vouchers as poison apples intended to kill off public education. Even programs financed by private donors are suspect, since those might persuade legislators that taxpayer-financed vouchers would be a good next step. But with inner-city schools in a state...
...vouchers, which are largely a Republican cause, may grow from a small-scale educational experiment to a sizable political issue. Of the 52 million schoolchildren in America, fewer than 8 million attend private or parochial schools. Of those, fewer than 20,000 are using vouchers to help cover their tuition. And only two cities, Milwaukee, Wis., and Cleveland, Ohio, use tax dollars to supply the vouchers. In 30 or so others, funding is provided by private donations. In Washington, for instance, Ted Forstmann, the head of investment firm Forstmann Little & Co., has joined with another investor, John Walton, to pledge...
...Democratic leaders and most civil rights groups, the main argument against vouchers also boils down to fairness. As they see it, the great majority of poor children will never be able to take advantage of them. States will never have the money for tuition assistance for all the poor children who might want it. And private schools are selective, accepting only the kids who meet their standards, which rules out a lot of kids. If just the brightest or most affluent of the poor escape to private schools, the rest will be stranded in a public system even more starved...
...Republican proposal for a $7 million voucher plan for Washington--a basket-case system where by some calculations 40% of the kids drop out before high school graduation--just one black member supported it, Oklahoma Republican J.C. Watts. The D.C. project, which offered up to $3,200 in tuition assistance apiece to 2,000 of the city's 78,000 public school students, had been approved earlier by the Senate. But there it fell two votes short of the 60 it would have needed to block a filibuster threatened by Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. Even if the proposal makes...
...thing, ours continues to be overwhelmingly a system run by governments--mostly local governments, but governments nonetheless. In elementary and secondary education, 89% of American students go to public schools, 9.5% to low-tuition private schools (mostly Catholic) and only 1.5% to private schools with tuition of more than $5,000 a year. The higher-education population is about four-fifths public and one-fifth private. All public school students have their education financed through the tax system, and all of them are subject to at least some central rules (like a ban on enforced racial segregation) that are imposed...