Word: voucherization
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...other Massachusetts co-chairman of NRC, Niel Wright '75, described NRC's position on education as congruent with many proposals brought up by liberal and radical critics. "If you combine the ideas of deferred tuition, the voucher system, and performance contracting, you get some sense of what we favor," he said...
...bastion of strength and discipline in the midst of turmoil. Priestly dissent is rare. The huge parochial school system remains intact, with remarkably low tuitions (after Pennsylvania's grants to private schools were banned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the state legislature voted $47 million a year in "voucher" aid to parents of private school pupils). This fall Krol capped a decade of construction costing $120 million by opening a new downtown office building...
...note that the "most promising approach" to gain state aid for parochial schools is now the "voucher" plan...
Also, it is highly unlikely that any form of voucher system could pass the Walz-Lemon test. Such programs plainly involve a subsidy to the parochial schools. MEYER EISENBERG Potomac...
Perhaps the most promising approach now gathering force is the so-called "voucher" plan. It would give parents certificates or vouchers good for a portion of the cost of educating their children. They could then cash in their tickets at any school that does not practice racial segregation. A law recently enacted in Maryland provides "scholarships" ranging up to $200 a year for a child from a poor family; Minnesota has passed a similar law. Embraced by groups ranging from free-enterprise conservatives to parents with kids in far-out private "free" schools, vouchers might be found constitutional since, like...