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...public school spending. Yet this year Bush and Gore - while rooted in different philosophies - have come up with thoughtful, detailed plans to tackle our most pressing educational challenges: schools that repeatedly fail, the opportunity for more early-childhood learning, the shortage of qualified teachers, the high cost of college tuition. And voters in 18 states will decide on ballot initiatives that concern such issues as vouchers and bilingual teaching. Gore is right when he says, "Education is on the ballot this November...
...program, the model for his brother's national voucher plan. (As governor of Texas, George W. Bush tried but failed to get the legislature to pass a similar program.) Students at both Pensacola schools were offered as much as $4,000 in state aid to pay for private-school tuition. Under Bush's national proposal, failing schools that do not improve for three years would lose their federal Title I money, which is then divided up and given, along with state matching dollars, to parents as $1,500 vouchers...
When Sherri Larsen casts her vote for President, she will be thinking of her first-grade son. A divorced mother of three on a pinched budget, Larsen could not afford preschool tuition. But thanks to Georgia's pioneering universal pre-K program, which guarantees each of the state's four-year-olds a year of school, she didn't pay a cent. Her son entered kindergarten fully versed in his ABCs and is now reading a year ahead of pace. Says Larsen: "I just can't believe this program isn't available in other states...
Events including Faculty discussion panels, museum tours and opportunities to attend classes and entertainment events for parents interested in finding out where their $35,000 tuition payments are going...
...dream of living a second, more exciting life post-financial sector seems impractical. At the age of 21 you chose the safe route to Wall Street. Is it plausible to assume that this same person will choose the adventurous path when they have a spouse, a mortgage and college tuition bills to worry about? A conservative at 20 does not become a hippie...