Word: voucher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Islamic school is part of Cleveland's pioneering school-voucher program. More than 3,700 of the city's students, nearly 5% of the public school enrollment, now use vouchers to escape the public school system. In a controversial move, Ohio chose to include religious schools in the program. Today the vast majority of vouchers are used at more than 50 religious schools--Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Islamic and Seventh-Day Adventist. (The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet decided if tax-funded vouchers for religious schools violate the First Amendment's separation of church and state.) The remaining vouchers...
...Vouchers may be the next big thing in American education. Thousands of students in Cleveland and Milwaukee, Wis., are using tax dollars to attend private schools, and Florida is poised to adopt the nation's first statewide program. Texas, New Mexico and Pennsylvania may follow. In New York City, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is thinking of introducing vouchers, though his schools' chancellor has threatened to resign if the mayor does. Privately funded voucher programs have sprung up in an additional 39 cities, and this week the largest such program in the U.S., founded by Wal-Mart scion John Walton and financier...
...finished stocking up on 1[cent] stamps, here's another way to get rid of those dusty pennies. Just stop by a supermarket like Kroger or A&P, and drop your change (the silver stuff included) into a Coinstar machine, which gives you a voucher good for cash or groceries (less an 8.9% commission). To find a terminal, call...
...woman, according to Kennedy, has two teenage sons, one of whom has a learning disability and requires extra tutoring, and a toddler daughter. Though she had a daycare voucher, the woman had repeated difficulties with getting the government-provided van to pick her daughter up at the agreed-upon time. Eventually she had missed so muchschool that she was forced to quit for the time being...
...claimed that plans to further nationalize education or to institute a voucher system were impractical...