Word: vouchers
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...conference is a milestone because the viability of vouchers and other school choice programs has not always been assured. “The policy landscape has changed,” notes Assistant Professor of Government William G. Howell. According to Howell, if the Supreme Court had ruled the Cleveland program unconstitutional, “vouchers would be dead.” More than a green light for school vouchers, the verdict affirms the principle of local control; whether vouchers are adopted is now for school boards and state legislatures to decide. For now, this ruling might mean little in states...
Unfortunately, the flourish of media attention obscures the complex reality of the voucher debate. Supreme Court victory or no, day-to-day hurdles continue in classrooms and legislatures. Moreover, institutional challenges escalate as communities must define the bounds of “public education” before they can move forward with reform. But most Americans are reluctant to embrace the empowerment that comes with school choice. The public is as resistant to funding parochial education as ever before because it is wary of breaching the separation of church and state. However, discussion didn’t end with Zelman?...
Romney insisted that he thought vouchers were not appropriate at the state level, but indicated his support for federal voucher funds for certain public schools...
...blocked by the same obstacles that helped keep them there in the first place: bad credit; a sagging job market; hostile, sometimes racist landlords; and neighborhoods that reject or make life uncomfortable for the incoming poor. "It's tough dealing with landlords when they know you have a voucher," says Berryman. "They treat you different when they know you're coming from the projects." Many of those landlords, she says, harbored misguided suspicions that she or her teenage son was involved with drugs and subjected them to nasty interrogations before slamming the door in their faces. That kind of treatment...
...good start would be to put some of the $1.6 billion of federal dollars into improving the pool of housing available for voucher families and develop ways to place tenants around the city anonymously so they can avoid the stigma of coming from the projects. The CHA has come quite a long way, but there is still much work to be done, not so much with the poor but in the hearts and minds of their prospective neighbors...