Word: voucherization
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Students will continue to have to obtain a meal voucher in advance to take teaching fellows or junior lecturers and preceptors to meals in their Houses. But while vouchers used to be available only at University Hall, they can now also be obtained at the Houses and Annenberg...
...McCain of distorting his tax plan. McCain salutes Bush every chance he gets and then cries foul about "attack ads" Bush has aired. On the Democratic side, Al Gore says he respects Bill Bradley--and then demolishes him for quitting the Senate, "eliminating" Medicaid, voting once for a school-voucher experiment and supporting the 1981 Reagan budget cuts. Except for that, though, he really respects...
Bradley's "leave-it-to-individual-communities" approach to public education would allow each school to use federal dollars in the way they saw most efficient and useful. As a senator, he has voted in favor of voucher programs on an experimental basis. Although the merits of vouchers are still inconclusive, Bradley has displayed a willingness to try out new ways of improving our public schools. In addition, recognizing the implications of our current teacher shortage, Bradley has vowed to forgive student loans for 60,000 college students, high-school graduates and mid-career professionals who certify as teachers...
...voucher policy does not assure that students will be able to attend a school of their particular religion, especially in the case of minority religions. Consequently, our government would thereby discriminate, albeit unintentionally, by not providing religious education to all groups...
...voucher system allows religious diversity to flourish, without raising such difficult questions. Comparatively speaking, even a strict adherence to the First Amendment is kinder to religion than other systems around the world. France is the perfect example...