Word: vouchers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yolanda is unemployed, Lester paid the tuition himself. But he's a retired children's clinic administrator, so money is scarce. Help came at a community meeting a few months later. Lester heard Robert Sorrell, head of the local chapter of the Urban League, talk about the new school-voucher program that Sorrell had started with money from the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association. The businesses were providing up to $1,000 in private-school-tuition assistance for about 90 students. With persistence, Lester got $700 of it to keep La-Kia at St. Thomas Aquinas. "You should...
Students can pay a special rate of six dollars, provided that they purchase a voucher at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office in advance...
Along the same lines, parents would be able to better educate their children with more disposable income. Working-class parents could begin to send their children to private or parochial schools. The voucher system proposed by the Republicans would be far more expensive than the Libertarian proposal and less effective, because public schools with good reputations would soon become overcrowded and sub-standard. By giving more parents the means to provide their children with private educations, public schools would soon improve from more manageable student populations...
Charter schools have been warily approved by the teachers unions that strongly support Bill Clinton. But the same unions furiously oppose private-school vouchers. For one thing, they fear that a privatized world would mean lower pay for teachers. In Catholic schools faculty salaries are sometimes 20% below those in surrounding public schools. Voucher opponents also argue that in a nation worried about the fraying of its common ties, public money for private instruction would bring on a patchwork of taxpayer-supported ideological enclaves--not just Christian, Jewish, Muslim or Buddhist, but schools arranged by black and white separatists...
...Catholic schools can be more selective than the public system, so they may end up with a student body more likely to succeed. What everyone agrees on is that the parents of parochial-school children are more involved in the education of their children. One hope behind the Cleveland voucher program, says Bert Holt, who administers it, is that it will draw more parents into an active relationship. "Parents think, 'I'm going to be signing off this tuition payment, which is going to educate my child. I have a stake in this.' For many of these parents, this...