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	Privatization and Educational Choice privbook.htm
		If the voucher amount is low, it will be less of a drain on public expenditures, but fewer parents will use it; the fewer who use it, the less likely it is that transferring students will compensate for the voucher expenditures to students already enrolled in private schools.
		Despite the unfavorable history of voucher initiatives, Americans for Educational Choice, a national coalition seeking to enact voucher plans, was established in the fall of 1988.3 Although composed predominantly of denominational schools and politically conservative organizations, the coalition hopes to launch a major effort to develop a broader base of political support for vouchers.
		As previously noted, voucher proposals may differ on a host of issues: who is eligible, the amount of the voucher, the kinds of expenses covered, the standards to be met by schools that redeem the vouchers, and state regulation of voucher schools, to cite just a few of the issues.
	www.educationpolicy.org /files/privbook/privboo9.htm (7616 words)

	Vouchers: An Initiative for School Reform?
		Vouchers have been introduced in 27 state legislatures across this country as part of the structural reform movement in public education.
		Educational leaders need to be prepared for the changes that vouchers may generate in their organizations.
		Educational leaders must also be prepared to handle an influx of these students back into their schools if they do not find success in the voucher system.
	horizon.unc.edu /projects/issues/papers/Voucher.asp (2965 words)

	NEA: National Education Association: School Vouchers
		Vouchers were not designed to help low-income children.
		Milton Friedman, the "grandfather" of vouchers, dismissed the notion that vouchers could help low-income families, saying "it is essential that no conditions be attached to the acceptance of vouchers that interfere with the freedom of private enterprises to experiment."
		Vouchers tend to be a means of circumventing the Constitutional prohibitions against subsidizing religious practice and instruction.
	www.nea.org /issues/vouchers/index.html (512 words)

	Crafting a Court-Proof Education Voucher
		Two proposed methods are tuition tax credits and educational vouchers A tuition tax credit is a direct reduction in the amount of taxes owed by a family after all income adjustments have been made.
		An educational voucher, on the other hand, does not involve an adjustment to a family's tax liability, but instead is a fixed sum of money'from the government, which a parent can use only to purchase'l education at a primary or secondary school of that parent's choice.
		Does this mean that when parents receive voucher money and spend it at the school of their choice, the government then gains some control over the private schools receiving the voucher payments To be sure, the Grove City case does not parallel exactly the proposed voucher systems.
	www.heritage.org /research/education/bg437.cfm (2585 words)

	Center on Reinventing Public Education
		The face value of vouchers is typically less than the public schools’; total per pupil expenditure, and the public school system does not have to maintain private school buildings.
		Voucher programs require public schools to transfer student records, re-allocate categorical program funding, arrange to test voucher students enrolled in private schools, re-structure public schools that had lost large numbers of students, prepare to accept disillusioned voucher students back into the public schools, and in some cases arrange student transportation to private schools.
		It also assumes that public agencies will continue to care about the educational experiences and growth of voucher students, and will therefore want both to administer voucher programs in ways that let private schools do their best for students and to ensure that student outcomes are evaluated.
	www.crpe.org /pubs/introAdminCostsVouchers.shtml (477 words)

	EducationNews.Org- America's leading Education News Source Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They are protesting current legal limits of about 15,000 voucher students in the 124 schools should be increased.
		Funding the private and religious voucher school "marketplace" from the taxpayer till has proven to be pricey.
		Voucher inclusion of religion proved profitable to all 63 new schools in the MPCP program.
	www.educationnews.org /writers/daniel/Voucher_marketplace_raids_taxpayer_till.htm (872 words)

	The Neutrality Principle by JAMES E. RYAN - Education Next - Fall 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Voucher opponents are counting on them in their effort to thwart voucher plans in state courts, and voucher proponents are fretting that they won the battle in the Supreme Court but may ultimately lose the war.
		Voucher programs offer public funds to private schools, which differ in the messages they seek to convey through their curricula, just as UVA offered funds to various student organizations.
		Voucher schools can be expected to rely on at least three federal constitutional rights in an effort to block regulation: the free exercise clause, the First Amendment right to association, and the free speech clause.
	www.educationnext.org /20034/28.html (3951 words)

	EPAA Vol. 10 No. 48 Laitsch: K-12 Voucher Programs and Education Policy: An Exploratory Study of Policy Maker Attitudes ...
		While voucher opponents were forced to consider what type of voucher system was least objectionable (and they preferred vouchers for poor students first, then students at poor performing schools), voucher advocates had the option to choose another type of voucher system, or no voucher system at all.
		It is difficult to determine a relationship between educational philosophy and demographic traits because of the unity of opinion related to the primary purposes of education and because of the small "n" for demographic differences.
		The voucher program for special education students is already showing tremendous expansion, and, should the program emerge from the courts entac, it seems possible that the voucher program for students in poor performing schools will expand significantly as the state's accountability program becomes fully enacted.
	epaa.asu.edu /epaa/v10n48 (13346 words)

	The Black Commentator - Bush's Phony "Grassroots" Voucher "Movement"- Issue 67
		Joining the BAEO on Rod Paige’s payroll was the Hispanic Council for Reform and Education Options (CREO, in the Spanish acronym), commissioned to perform the same propaganda mission as the BAEO among Hispanics.
		These millions could be more effectively spent on improving the higher education, training, recruitment and development of new and tenured teachers.” However, the Right’s agenda is not to improve public education, but to lay the groundwork for subsidized privatization of learning in the United States.
		Vouchers are key to GOP ambitions to create an “alternative” Black political leadership and to simultaneously sunder the ties between African Americans and organized labor, particularly teachers unions.
	www.blackcommentator.com /67/67_cover_voucher.html (928 words)

	Citizens for Educational Freedom school choice, parents rights, vouchers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An educational voucher is a check/certificate for tuition made out in the name of a child and sent to the parents who can then take it to the school - public, private or parochial - of their choice.
		Members of the present education establishment: Union officials as well as school administrators and teachers are the chief opponents because they have been told that they will lose their jobs if vouchers are allowed.
		Vouchers give the poor the same opportunity to exercise the right that the wealthy have had all along: to send their children to the school that is best for them.
	www.educational-freedom.org /vouchers.html (1796 words)

	Education Resources » Education voucher
		Further, it is noted that school vouchers allow for a greater possibility of economic diversity because the poor—under that system—can attend private schools that were previously inaccessible.
		Critics of the voucher system note that it is possible to have choice between schools within the public school system without vouchers.
		A program authorized by the state of Ohio in the city of Cleveland was challenged in court on the grounds that it violated the federal constitutional principle of separation of church and state and the Ohio Constitution’s guarantee of religious liberty.
	www.thecatalyst.org /resource/2006/04/21/Education-voucher (1616 words)

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		An education voucher is a certificate by which parents are given the ability to pay for the education of their children at a school of their choice, rather than the public school to which they were assigned.
		Those in favor of school choice note that they should be permitted to spend their tax dollars at the educational facility of their choosing.
		In Chile there is a vouchers systems in which the State pays directly to private schools based on recruitment.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/education_voucher.html (126 words)

	EducationNews.Org- America's leading Education News Source Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Former Jackson State University football coach and current U.S. Department of Education Secretary Roderick Paige was in his voucher uniform before the ink was dry, ready for the task to recruit voucher carpetbaggers to handle the guaranteed fallout from NCLB public school high-stakes testing and ensuing school sanctions.
		He reiterated support for vouchers in a Washington Post article published February 19, 1995 and reprinted recently by the conservative Hoover Institution where he is a senior research fellow.
		While Paiges department voucher underlings chased down disgruntled NCLB state public school superintendent critics, he was busy praising pro-voucher leaders and organizations throughout the country for their Friedman initiated efforts.
	www.educationnews.org /writers/daniel/pro-voucher-brain-trusts-vital-to.htm (1161 words)

	Voucher Programs Around the World - by Harry Anthony Patrinos - The Heartland Institute
		By extending financing to these other education providers through vouchers or grant programs, governments would give all parents, regardless of income, the opportunity to participate more fully in their child's education by choosing the school that is right for them.
		However, "compulsory education" was loosely defined, and people remained free to educate their children as they saw fit as long as children received instruction in the principal subjects.
		The Education Inspectorate is charged by the Minister of Education with supervising the manner in which schools fulfill their responsibilities.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=9904 (1454 words)

	Private education voucher program wins approval in Colorado Church & State - Find Articles
		Colorado voters in 1992 soundly rejected a voucher ballot referendum, 67 percent to 33 percent.
		*Voucher advocates in Missouri are trying to change the state constitution to remove its ban on government aid to religious schools.
		It is administered by the state, but voucher opponents hope opposition from the Milwaukee School Board will lead to more government oversight and control of the plan.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200305/ai_n9264956 (693 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Society & Community. American Education. School Voucher Debate \| PBS
		Learn more about the history of educational vouchers as well as related information on the separation of church and state.
		"To give a government-funded voucher to a parent to 'spend' at the public, private or parochial school of their choice is no more a governmental establishment of religion than allowing a Medicare beneficiary to seek their treatment (which the government will pay for) at the public, private or parochial hospital of their choice.
		Voucher programs violate this principle by forcing all taxpayers to underwrite religious education.
	www.pbs.org /now/society/voucherdebate.html (884 words)

	Assessing Bush's School Voucher Plan
		The vouchers can be applied towards tuition, transportation, or "supplementary academic services for the child" at the public, private, or parochial school of the family's choice.
		One clear danger in the GI Bill for Children is that in return for establishing vouchers, it expands federal funding to schools and federal regulation of private education.
		While education traditionally has been the domain of the state and local governments, federal spending on education has increased 25 percent since FY 1989.
	www.heritage.org /research/education/EM336.cfm (1103 words)

	Education voucher scheme soon -DAWN - National; 15 October, 2004
		ISLAMABAD, Oct 14: Education Minister Lt-Gen (retired) Javed Ashraf Qazi has said an Education Voucher Scheme with the financial assistance of the World Bank will soon be launched as a pilot project in Islamabad under which $50,000 will be distributed among poor families as an incentive to send their children to schools.
		He said an amount of Rs39.329 million allocated in the PSDP 2004-05 for the establishment of 350 community schools in Fata was dispersed and judiciously utilized with an emphasis on girls' education.
		The ministry has also decided that all educational plans should include provision of at least one quality polytechnic institute at every district.
	www.dawn.com /2004/10/15/nat11.htm (363 words)

	Innovation and Profit: What Education Needs Most - An Exclusive Interview with David L. Brennan - by George A. Clowes - ...
		That voucher program, which permits parents to use publicly funded vouchers to pay for tuition at religious schools, was given a constitutional green light by the U.S. Supreme Court in the June 2002 decision, Zelman v.
		We are developing education programs for a population that does not fit well into the traditional public education mold.
		If you live in a city now, you have the choice of charter schools; we would add vouchers to that, provided the student was in a public school during the previous year.
	www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=15222 (2437 words)

	Bill Ratliff's Assignment: Education - Voucher Series
		Education has been thrust into the political spotlight this election year..
		Their proposed education reforms are very different from one another, and give voters a clear choice.
		Dr. Mack Hicks of Pinellas County is director of a group which calls itself "Parents for Educational Fairness." Hicks says the use of vouchers is a matter of social justice.
	wfla.tbo.com /ed/85.htm (797 words)

	2006 Navy Advanced Education Voucher Program
		The Naval Education and Training Command recently released guidelines for 2006 AEV program that is designed to provide advanced education opportunities for senior enlisted personnel.
		The Advanced Education Voucher Program is aimed at superior performers in pay grades E-7 to E-9 who have the potential for continued upward mobility, and specifically targets assistance for post secondary, Navy-relevant degree programs.
		Senior enlisted who have already invested in their development by pursuing college education and those who are currently enrolled in a qualifying post-secondary degree program using tuition assistance, or other financial assistance programs, are eligible to apply for the AEV program.
	www.military.com /Resources/ResourcesContent/0,13964,85727--0,00.html (478 words)

	Voucher system a threat to education
		Education vouchers could lead to a privatization of education in America, relieving the government of any funding responsibilities.
		The loss of property tax funds to vouchers from the public school system will further shortchange America's minority and poor population because those parents cannot afford to put money with the voucher amount to pay the higher tuition.
		Eventually this could lead to dissolving property tax collection of education funds and putting the total cost of educating America's youth in the hands of their parents on an ability-to-pay system.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/1007frilets075.html (247 words)

	TheDenverChannel.com - Education - School Voucher Program Ruled Unconstitutional (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The voucher program required school districts to turn over a portion of locally raised funds to private schools that local school boards had no control over, the Supreme Court said.
		Ron Brady, president of the Colorado Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, said the ruling was not a surprise.
		A constitutional voucher program will likely be impossible to devise because of strong prohibitions against giving taxpayer money to private or religious institutions, Brady said.
	www.thedenverchannel.com /education/3468711/detail.html (752 words)

	Education voucher system - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		LIKE trying to hit two birds with one stone, the Department of Education (DepEd) is striving to ease the load of the public education system and help private schools through the Government Assistance for Students and Teachers in Private Education (Gastpe).
		Education officials have said that the number of grantees will be increased by 50,000 per year until the number of beneficiaries reaches around 775,000, which is enough to arrest the rapid increase in the number of students in public high schools.
		The vouchers are nontransferable and awarded to the name on the voucher, but are paid to the private school.
	news.inq7.net /opinion/index.php?index=1&story_id=78796 (704 words)

	Navy 2006 Graduate Education Voucher
		The 2006 Graduate Education Voucher program offers eligible unrestricted line officers the opportunity to receive funded graduate education during off-duty hours.
		The program benefits cover all graduate education costs (tuition, books, registration/application fees), to a maximum of $20,000 per year for up to 24 months from the time of enrollment (not to exceed $40,000 total).
		For those not qualifying for the GEV program, assistance is still available through the Tuition Assistance program and other graduate education programs.
	www.military.com /MilitaryReport/0,12914,87631,00.html (130 words)

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