Word: vouchers
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Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 agrees. Hoxby, well known for her school voucher lecture in Ec 10, is the first and only woman to be brought through the tenure track in the Economics Department. While she considers her own experience in the tenure track “reasonably straightforward,” she feels that someone needs to be looking over ad hoc committee shoulders...
Students who wish to dine with faculty already have some options. Most Houses offer semi-annual student-faculty dinners, and students can also take advantage of the Meal Voucher Program, which allows professors to eat with students in dining halls for free. But Rosen said he felt that an alternative was needed...
Last night the Black Students Association, Concilio Latino and the Harvard Republican Club sponsored a debate about school choice. Whether it involves interdistrict transfer, vouchers or charter schools, “school choice” is increasingly popular with minority parents otherwise unable to escape decrepit government schools in Cleveland, Detroit and other large cities. While the 14 years since Milwaukee first attempted a voucher system have seen such milestones as the Supreme Court’s 2002 ruling in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which stated that vouchers could be used at religious schools, and this year?...
Three years from now, a case comes before the Supreme Court arguing for nation-wide parochial school vouchers—programs that use public money to subsidize tuition for religious schools. Proponents of the case cite two recent Supreme Court decisions: a 2002 ruling in which the Court upheld vouchers for parochial schools in Cleveland and a 2004 ruling that forced Washington state to fund theology majors at religious colleges. The combination of the two rulings makes the case’s outcome inevitable: the Cleveland voucher program affirms that taxpayers’ money can pay for religiously-affiliated schools...
...speech entitled “Race and the Republican Party,” Thernstrom promoted the use of voucher systems and charter schools—both backed by the Bush administration—as potential solutions for narrowing the racial achievement...