Word: vouchers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cleveland took this controversial step across the church-state line out of desperation. As elsewhere in the U.S., many of its inner-city public schools are a physical and academic dead zone. In California, Colorado and Oregon, voters have turned down voucher initiatives that would extend school choice statewide because most suburban voters are not that unhappy with their public schools. So programs targeted at minority kids have become the new, more ambiguous school-choice battleground--one on which liberals don't always know which side to take. For some poor children, the chance to go to private school could...
...total public-school choice as well as charter schools...It may be very effective politically to use my daughter as an example, but it is not fair because of her own unusual circumstances, and it doesn't deal with the fact that what [Republicans] want to do [with their voucher program] is to take funds now going to the public schools and give them to private schools when the public schools are already underfunded...
Peterson and Green's study was based on the examination of an experimental Milwaukee program, begun in 1990, which brought stu- dents from low-income, inner-city families to private schools through a voucher system...
After four years, the students in the voucher program advanced to an average of five points higher on the reading and 12 points higher on the math than their peers in public schools...
Peterson noted that the control group in the public schools was drawn from a pool of students rejected from the voucher program, thus ensuring that these students were from families concerned about education...