Word: vouchers
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This so-called "right" to a private education forms the centerpiece of the Bush administration's education policy, consisting of a proposed voucher system which gives up to $1500 per child to parents to spend on any school they choose--public, private or parochial. The president also favors school choice and plans to institute a national, voluntary testing program...
...anyway, the president's plan hasn't got a chance of becoming reality. Congress has said repeatedly that it will never pass a voucher plan, and even with perhaps 120 new members, the chances of passage remain slim. American schoolchildren, their schools worsening by the month, are desperately in need of action...
...idea of school choice, while not nearly as insidious as the voucher program, is almost as misguided. Underneath the well-meaning policy lies a similarly misinformed philosophy about what America's children need from those responsible for them...
...worst schools in the city. They don't always know enough to sign their kid up for Boston Latin or Beverly Hills high. The cycle continues. And with school choice programs already popping up independently across the country, it poses a greater threat than Bush's imaginary voucher program...
Despite inflation of 1,000% this year, not everyone cared to take heed of Gaidar's advice. In private trading in Moscow, single vouchers were reportedly fetching anywhere from 500 to 50,000 rubles. Though conservative opponents called the program "deeply depraved" and have tried unsuccessfully to derail it in parliament, the government pressed on, vowing that every citizen will have received a voucher by Dec. 31. By then perhaps, Russians will have figured out whether they should buy, sell or hold...