Word: voucherization
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...wasn't easy for me to take DuPont seriously. It didn't seem that a rich heir named Pierre, with tortoise-rim glasses and preppy clothes, would ooze with compassion for the poor. After all, this was a man who, during the Republican primaries, trumpeted a public school voucher system--a way to move the most motivated students to better schools, leaving the more academically needy students behind and spurring a further decline in the quality of inner-city education...
Despite his voucher system and the remainder of his conservative agenda, DuPont made suprising overtures to another former candidate during the convention. He allied himself with Rev. Jesse Jackson. He even proposed that Republican economic policies are better suited to achieving Jackson's economic goals than Democratic policies...
...School and Cambridge also help some teachers get back to class with a voucher system. Area teachers who allow student teachers from the Ed School in their classrooms are given a voucher to take one Ed School course...
Child care is fast emerging as a political issue. At least three Democratic presidential candidates have been emphasizing the need for better facilities and calling for federal action. Former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt has proposed that the U.S. Government establish a voucher system to help low- income parents pay for day care. Delaware Senator Joseph Biden favors federal child-care subsidies for the working poor and tax incentives to encourage businesses to provide day care. If elected, he vows, he will set up a center for White House employees as an example to other employers. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis...
...cities with high vacancy rates, low-income tenants like the freedom that vouchers provide, even at a higher price. Says Apolonio Flores of the San Antonio Housing Authority: "Some of our people are saying that they always wanted their kids to go to a nicer school, to live closer to their parents." But the rental markets in some cities are so tight that vouchers are meaningless. New York City, for example, has 200,000 applicants waiting for public housing. When vouchers were offered to low-income families there, 62% were returned unused: even with federal assistance, the families still could...