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School Vouchers
[I yanked my (this) post off the englands health care thread.]
Voucher systems would only give money from Title 10. Title ten is the only money that the Federal government, which is all Bush can control, doles out to education. The rest of our education spending is state budgets. That amount of money amounts to 1,100 dollars per student. It's equalizer money. Title 10 is meant to level the playing field between different school districts around the country.
That 1,100 will be enticing and effective for upper middle class people who can afford the average 7,500 a year it costs to send a kid to private school. It will also be money given to families who already send their kids to public schools. But for everyone else, the middle class and poor kids, that won't amount to more than a drop in the bucket. It will take a big chunk of that 'evening out money' out of the poor schools who really need it though. And that only makes our schools worse. "No Child Left Behind" is just the first step in fully erasing the american public school system.
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