Word: voucherization
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While Cavanaugh agrees that the idea of less monopoly in government is a good one, he argues that the school voucher system would require gradual, rather than sudden, implemetation and provisions for children with special needs...
Obviously, school reform is badly needed. But many parents--especially minorities, who comprise 85 percent of CPS students--believe that even more drastic challenges to the education bureaucracy may be called for, and call for a privatized voucher system. As Professor Kevin Ryan of the Boston University Education School says, public schools have "all the problems of a monopoly, of a protected industry that is there to serve its own interests, not that of the consumer of education...
...should have the right to educate their children in the best manner possible. Right now, most CPS teachers are wealthy enough to send their children to private schools, and 46 percent do. The 67 percent of CPS parents who are below the poverty line cannot afford this luxury. A voucher system, in which the public schools would have to compete with more efficient private schools, might give parents that choice...
...Vouchers may not be the best or only solution to America's abysmal education situation, but in refusing to even consider reform or vouchers, the Chicago Principals' Association is doubly guilty. It neither wants to be held accountable by LSCs nor wants to have to compete on the open market for voucher money...
...backed a voucher program for parents who wish to send their children to private schools. Advocates a longer school year and increasing standardized tests. Proposes a system of rewards for teachers whose students perform well on these tests...