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...Yolanda is unemployed, Lester paid the tuition himself. But he's a retired children's clinic administrator, so money is scarce. Help came at a community meeting a few months later. Lester heard Robert Sorrell, head of the local chapter of the Urban League, talk about the new school-voucher program that Sorrell had started with money from the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association. The businesses were providing up to $1,000 in private-school-tuition assistance for about 90 students. With persistence, Lester got $700 of it to keep La-Kia at St. Thomas Aquinas. "You should...
...discussion of vouchers gets framed by both sides as an issue of fairness. Supporters ask why the poor should not have the same chance at private schools as the better-off. Though it's too soon to tell whether most voucher-supported students perform better academically in a private school, no one needs a study to show that most private schools are safer and more orderly. For inner-city parents, vouchers can represent salvation from a system in perpetual disrepair, even if they offer just a fraction of poor children a way into the lifeboat of private schooling...
Sensing the shift at ground level, a few black leaders are getting onboard. Seven years ago, Polly Williams, a Democratic state legislator in Wisconsin, set in motion the process that brought Milwaukee the nation's first publicly financed voucher system. Earlier this year, when the Texas state legislature came within one vote of establishing a publicly funded voucher program, the supporters included Ron Wilson, a black Democratic legislator from Houston. In Philadelphia, the logic of vouchers has hit Dwight Evans, a black state legislator who plans to run for mayor in 1999 and who has his own poll that shows...
Students can pay a special rate of six dollars, provided that they purchase a voucher at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office in advance...
Along the same lines, parents would be able to better educate their children with more disposable income. Working-class parents could begin to send their children to private or parochial schools. The voucher system proposed by the Republicans would be far more expensive than the Libertarian proposal and less effective, because public schools with good reputations would soon become overcrowded and sub-standard. By giving more parents the means to provide their children with private educations, public schools would soon improve from more manageable student populations...