Word: voucherization
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EDUCATION This year he pushed a major reform that combined most of Gore's spending proposals with stronger accountability measures. He has supported some voucher plans, saying they offer "hope to a whole new group of low-income kids...
...Draper lacks the common touch, he makes up for it in chutzpah. "I'm a freedom fighter," he says, explaining why he is bankrolling a campaign to pass an initiative that would require the state to offer a $4,000 annual voucher to any parent, rich or poor, to send a child to private school. The measure, which will be on California's November ballot, is likely to spark the most heated and expensive proposition campaign in the U.S., with vigorous opposition from Governor Gray Davis, the California Teachers Association, PTAs and groups such as the California Business Roundtable...
Draper's initiative is different from Florida's voucher law, signed by Governor Jeb Bush but now under court challenge. The initiative would not target low-income families or subpar schools. "If it were for just one type of person, it would mean more bureaucracy," he says. Draper's polls show that an across-the-board voucher has more chance of passage. Indeed, Bishop Charles Blake, of the West Angeles Church of God in Christ, where Draper met with pastors, endorses the measure, which would be a boon to his 230-pupil Christian academy. But the Rev. Cecil Murray...
...Giuliani steps aside, says the Pataki adviser, "it's gonna be Rick. All the other names are bulls___." Those names include Peter King, the voluble Congressman who last week was busy working up interest in his candidacy; and Ted Forstmann, a millionaire financier known for his $50 million voucher program to send poor children to private schools. Forstmann's appeal lies in the fact that he could pay his own way, but G.O.P. strategists insist money won't be a problem. "If you or I ran against Hillary Clinton, we'd raise $20 million in no time," says Kieran Mahoney...
...These results have clearly raised the interest of many states. But unlike innovations in elementary education, such as charter schools and voucher programs, changes to public university systems happen to an entire state at a time - and that's a pretty big chunk of the population to experiment with. The problem is that the fate of this policy, which stands to affect so many, very soon, seems destined to be decided by cross-party bickering rather than reasoned debate...