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...October the government started issuing every man, woman and child in Russia a voucher worth 10,000 rubles to help purchase state property and speed up the transition to free enterprise. Using the beige coupons as money, people + bought 59 used trucks in the first such sell-off in the city of Nizhni Novgorod. In fine irony, an auctioneer, clad in black dinner jacket, gaveled them off beneath a glowering statue of Lenin...
...voucher program thus far hasn't been tried on a large enough scale to make decisive conclusions about its future role. According to The New York Times, researchers discovered that less than 2 percent of students have taken advantage of statewide choice programs even though the past two Secretaries of Education, Lauro Cavazos and Lamar Alexander, have both attempted to expand the program...
...anyway, the president's plan hasn't got a chance of becoming reality. Congress has said repeatedly that it will never pass a voucher plan, and even with perhaps 120 new members, the chances of passage remain slim. American schoolchildren, their schools worsening by the month, are desperately in need of action...
...idea of school choice, while not nearly as insidious as the voucher program, is almost as misguided. Underneath the well-meaning policy lies a similarly misinformed philosophy about what America's children need from those responsible for them...
...worst schools in the city. They don't always know enough to sign their kid up for Boston Latin or Beverly Hills high. The cycle continues. And with school choice programs already popping up independently across the country, it poses a greater threat than Bush's imaginary voucher program...