DC Voucher Experiment Failing
/The D.C. voucher program did not receive enough applicants from public
schools to fill all the slots available, and some of the children who
will receive the federally funded tuition grants already attend private
school, officials said yesterday. The $14 million initiative, the
nation's first federally funded voucher plan, provides grants of up to
$7,500 per child toward tuition and other education expenses at private
or religious schools. "It's outrageous," said Ralph G. Neas, president
of People for the American Way. "Federal dollars that could be used and
should be used to improve struggling public schools are now being used
to subsidize the education of children already in private schools." [more]
