Word: voucherization
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...addition, Elmore noted that there is no evidence that private schools attended through voucher programs provide better instruction than public schools...
...most voucher and charter schools, the instruction is only decent, in relation to even the poorest public schools," Elmore said. "There is no other industrialized country in the world where they've improved public schools by using vouchers...
Bolick said vouchers would provide immediate relief to poor families in addition to forcing public schools to raise their educational standards in the long run. According to Bolick, most families affected by voucher systems in public school districts would have below-average incomes...
Patricia A. Casola, chair of the Fresh Pond Tenants Association, said that the current one-year housing voucher system in Massachusetts--which allows tenants evicted under rent control to stay in government subsidized housing--a "temporary band-aid on a problem that requires surgery...
...Philadelphia. "The N.A.A.C.P. is out of touch," says Congressman Floyd Flake, a New York Democrat. "The next wave of the civil rights movement will be demand for choice in schools." All the same, when the House voted earlier this month to approve a Republican proposal for a $7 million voucher plan for Washington--a basket-case system where by some calculations 40% of the kids drop out before high school graduation--just one black member supported it, Oklahoma Republican J.C. Watts. The D.C. project, which offered up to $3,200 in tuition assistance apiece to 2,000 of the city...