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...voucher idea is nothing if not controversial. Miriam Rosenberg, government-relations specialist for the National Parent Teacher Association, called Bennett's proposal an "inappropriate and possibly unconstitutional transfer of public tax dollars to private and especially private religious schools." Others argued that $600 would not go far toward private day-school tuition or even the pupil cost in an upscale suburban school (typically...
...California a federally funded voucher experiment died aborning in 1981 when students found alternative schools to be no better than those they had left. Elsewhere, the notion has little more support. A Chicago city council proposal for vouchers has triggered such strong opposition from the school board that the issue may wind up in court. In Minnesota a legislative compromise rejecting general vouchers but permitting juniors and seniors to use state school dollars for college courses is under attack by secondary-school administrators...
...House killed in committee a voucher bill similar to Bennett's. California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, vows the same fate for the new measure, which he brands "a cruel hoax on the nation's very poorest families...
Joubert, who says she has been homeless since 1993, has entirely given up any hope of obtaining a voucher...
...squeeze could worsen if Cambridge officials cut the number of voucher recipients—which they say may be necessary after the federal government reduced Section 8 funding to the city by $1.2 million last year...