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...provide a notable avenue to address the failures of our current system, in which children who are several grade levels behind in basic math and reading skills are left to slip through the cracks. Other proposed remedies for the education crisis—from charter schools to private school vouchers??merely skirt the systemic problems with public schooling and instead look to save a notable few students. By failing to provide access to all students, they fail to satisfy the ultimate goal of public education. Rather than move students to other schools, their current schools should be made...
...social and economic mobility is a double-edged sword. Woo finds herself flirting with the line between advancing her career through education and losing access to the welfare provisions—state-issued food stamps and childcare vouchers??that allow her and her daughter to keep their heads above water...
...faces the added challenge of improving her job prospects while knowing that accepting one of these careers could strip her family of the welfare provisions—foodstamps and childcare vouchers??that she and her daughter depend...
Three years from now, a case comes before the Supreme Court arguing for nation-wide parochial school vouchers??programs that use public money to subsidize tuition for religious schools. Proponents of the case cite two recent Supreme Court decisions: a 2002 ruling in which the Court upheld vouchers for parochial schools in Cleveland and a 2004 ruling that forced Washington state to fund theology majors at religious colleges. The combination of the two rulings makes the case’s outcome inevitable: the Cleveland voucher program affirms that taxpayers’ money can pay for religiously-affiliated schools...
...campus facilities. The student group Response provides its peer counselors as escorts for these students so that at least they don’t have to visit the waiting room alone. Current efforts to offer unmarked HUPD cars—instead of impersonal taxicabs and “transportation vouchers??—as a ride for assaulted students is a step in the right direction...
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