Word: vouchers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gore's comeback is specific, good. But he needs to answer the parental involvement question more directly and, more important, find a way to make a larger point. He sounds too much like he's offering a list of promises. The voucher point, though, is a good one for Gore. The political and journalistic elites are sympathetic to vouchers but Gore knows well that they're not popular nationwide. That's why the proposition favoring vouchers in California is going down...
When Francisco Lopez casts his vote in the presidential election this fall, school vouchers just might be a deal breaker. With the help of two $4,800 publicly funded "scholarships," or vouchers, Lopez, a father of five, sends two of his daughters to a Roman Catholic girls' school a few blocks from their home on the south side of Milwaukee, Wis. Rather than place their children across town in the public school system's gifted program, Lopez and his wife Monica opted for a neighborhood private school that offers smaller classes and better communication between teachers and parents. The Lopezes...
...election year when both major-party candidates are making education a top priority, one of the issues generating the most heated debate--and creating the most confusion among voters--is school vouchers, a controversial reform that uses tax dollars to help parents send their kids to private schools or hire private tutors. Statewide voucher proposals are on the ballot in California and Michigan. And George W. Bush advocates a federal voucher program that Gore opposes...
Bush would take federal aid from poorly performing public schools and give it to low-income parents to apply toward private-school tuition or tutoring. Like other voucher proponents, Bush argues that his plan would force schools to improve by making them compete for families' money, just as colleges must do. But Bush has stopped using the V word, saying he supports "opportunity scholarships." That euphemism, pollsters say, evokes fewer negative connotations among voters, who have been told by teachers' unions and other opponents of vouchers that they would siphon money away from public education...
Recent data indicates the unprecedented success of pilot voucher and school choice programs across the country. According to a study released in August by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance, test scores for low-income African-Americans given the opportunity to use vouchers for private schools showed "moderately large" gains and academic improvement. In a New York City program, low-income students showed tangible improvements after using vouchers to switch schools. Bush will also give public schools incentives to reach the required standard...