Word: voucherization
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Beyond that bit of illogic, opponents are worried that the voucher program would drain resources from the schools that need them the most. Their cause got a boost last week, when a Florida judge ruled that Governor Jeb Bush's state voucher plan--the model for his brother's national program--violates the state constitution and must be dropped. The judge's ruling was narrow and may not mean that George W.'s plan would face a similar fate. But even if it did, Bush wouldn't stop talking about vouchers, because they help conservatives swallow his federal activism...
...next day, the student is officially entered into the system as a vendor. Ross then uses a different application called "Web Voucher" to enter the payment as if she were paying a vendor...
...this form she must write down a requisition number generated by the Web Voucher program...
...issue of school vouchers - the most contentious in American public education over the past decade - is poised to come to a head. On Tuesday a Florida circuit court judge ruled that the state's nascent voucher program violates the state constitution. But this isn't the last we've heard of the Florida voucher program, the most ambitious in the nation. The arguments against the program - that it violates the separation of church and state and leaves the neediest kids stranded in underperforming schools - are being hotly debated across the country, and voucher proponents are already lining up national experts...
...Florida is the only state to make vouchers available to parents in all underperforming schools. In this system, if a school averages subpar grades on state standardized tests in consecutive years, parents are offered $3,389 vouchers that can be used for private, parochial or other public schools. Despite signs that it's been somewhat successful (a mostly flattering story about the program ran on the front page of the New York Times on Tuesday), Judge Ralph Smith Jr. ruled in favor of voucher opponents, reasoning that it illegally funnels public funding into private schools. Both sides of the lawsuit...