Word: voucherization
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Bush says his plan would cost $100 billion over the next five years--most of that money going straight into the hands of insurance companies reaping huge windfalls from the additional clients made possible by the voucher plan. Where's the cash coming from, George? "We'll figure that out," says the President...
...worst choice plan is a voucher system in which public money is used to pay partial tuition costs to private schools. Proponents dream that the magic of the free market will increase competition and bring about the best possible results for schools. But the results are more likely to resemble our private health care system, in which people who use vouchers in the form of Medicare or Medicaid get vastly inferior care. Moreover, the Andovers, Exeters and Deerfields will still pick the kids they want, making a great influx of inner-city kids unlikely...
...Mississippi campaign was tinged with race. Fordice, 57, said he opposed racial quotas, pushed a voucher system that would allow a choice of schools, favored workfare and not welfare and in one survey said he favored repealing the 1965 Voting Rights...
...order to "streamline [the council's] financial bureaucracy," Aronberg called for a voucher system in which council money would be disbursed by University accountants in Holyoke Center...
...Paul to become president of Education Alternatives, the company that runs the Tesseract schools. It is easy to imagine that Bennett, a proponent of public-school open enrollment, would be a missionary for unrestricted Choice in his private- sector role. Not quite. "No matter how you dress up a voucher system," Bennett says, "the poverty kids will end up with the short end of the stick." In any game of educational musical chairs, someone has to lose. And almost certainly, the last student stuck in a failing school will come from an impoverished background...