Word: vouchers
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...other state or municipality, both of these big figures would actually have the legal power to control their own education policy. Yet, for D.C., it’s Congress that controls the budget. And when the usual political leaders failed to support the Democratic Party line, anti-voucher forces encouraged Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., ranking member of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, to stage a filibuster. Kennedy and committee Democrats—most of whom practice what might...
...arguing against vouchers and for putting more funding into D.C. schools is a Democrat’s worst nightmare. As it stands, the District’s schools spend nearly 50 percent more money per student than that nationwide average. And yet, the results of the spending are abyssmal. In this light, defending a budgetary black hole like the status quo doesn’t seem to be viable. One organization, Stop D.C. Vouchers, an organization supported by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the two largest teachers’ unions, has merely advised voucher opponents...
...seems to be a good tactic—if only it were true. Rather, the budget that D.C. will get for education is independent of the voucher program. Simply put, if a family accepts one of the $7,500 vouchers, that funding comes from the federal government, not the D.C. school budget. Indeed, under the program, the school district would pay nothing to send its students to better-performing private schools...
...consider what will happen without regulation. Medicare recipients will be left with something like a voucher that will almost immediately lose its value as drug costs continue their dizzying climb. If the benefit is administered through private insurance companies, recipients will be left to navigate a notoriously treacherous market to try to find a package they can afford, which will quickly become impossible. Either insurers will raise premiums out of reach, or they will offer deals so skimpy that they are not worth buying. Medicare recipients will end up paying for the profits of these companies, essentially middle...
...Accompanying the Rehnquist story was an item about the 2002 school-voucher decision, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris. We said the court's ruling held that "a government program does not obstruct freedom of religion if aid goes directly to the student or parent, who then chooses a school." The issue involved was whether the voucher program violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, the guarantee that the government will not establish a religion but will maintain the separation of church and state...