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Backers of diversity are taking notice. Texas Appleseed, a nonprofit consortium of lawyers, provides 50 scholarships to minority undergraduates to attend a 16-session Kaplan LSAT course. Kaplan has set up a similar voucher program in California. The New York City-based Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund offers students at six historically black universities Princeton Review courses for $375--half the regular price. "In the short term," Sharlot says, "nothing could be more helpful in increasing the pool of competitive minority applicants than access to the prep courses." He may be right: last summer 16 students took a Princeton Review course...
...sure the communists never returned was to quickly privatize all government-owned businesses and housing. This way, common citizens would have private property and an incentive to defend it. How do you privatize a Stalinist economy quickly? Well, the Czechs had been doing it for two years with the "voucher" system, devised by Jan Svejnar, a Czech-American economist. Now, Russia has a lower percentage of its GNP in government hands than does Italy...
...Elmore and Mincberg emphasized that public schools will be hurt, both in the immediate and distant future, by the institution of voucher programs...
...evidence is that children and parents who take advantage of voucher programs tend to be more actively involved in education," Elmore said. "But what about those left behind?...The net effect is a reduction in performance...
Mincberg estimated that if a national voucher program were instituted $16 billion would go to students already in private schools. Elmore suggested that, rather than instituting a voucher system, school districts should concentrate on increasing performance educational performance standards to improve public schools...