The ruling was a major blow for prominent Republican leaders, especially former Gov. Jeb Bush, who made vouchers the centerpiece of education changes he pushed through in 1999.
This makes vouchers costly way for public schools to get rid of the most bothersome parents.Keith Baker Heber City, UtahAny discussion of school vouchers must acknowledge that the actual debate is over what "the right to public education" actually means.
The Colorado voucher law, enacted in April and scheduled to take effect with the next school year, would have made vouchers available to low-income, low-achieving students in school districts with eight or more low-performing schools.
Here in New Mexico, Governor Johnson has made vouchers a hallmark issue, convinced that ever-increasing spending on state public schools -- $1.6 billion was proposed this year, almost half the budget -- has not produced significant improvements in student performance.
Republicans have made vouchers one of their crusades for revamping ailing schools, arguing that by offering parents a choice between public and private schools, public schools would be forced to improve.
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The new proposal, first raised by a presidential commission on special education last July, would simply make such vouchers easier to obtain for handicapped students.
Sometimes I wonder if they think that I make the vouchers, the amount of stick I get.
If you can't make the voucher work as stated, be a grown-up and eat the cost of purchasing it.
In mid-August, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it will hold a series of landlord forums in selected cities to hear from property owners about how to make the voucher program more attractive to them.
