How Vouchers Came to D.C.: The Inside Story

Autor/in	Hsu, Spencer S.
Titel	How Vouchers Came to D.C.: The Inside Story
Quelle	In: Education Next, 4 (2004) 4, S.44-50 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Scholarships; Educational Vouchers; School Choice; Urban Schools; Grants; Public Schools; Private Schools; Federal Aid; African American Students; Politics of Education; Equal Education; Access to Education; District of Columbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Scholarship; Stipendium; Educational voucher; Bildungsgutschein; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Private school; Privatschule; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang
Abstract	On May 23, 2001, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives had rejected a proposal to fund a pilot school voucher program that would have provided a token voucher of $1,500 to students in five schools nationwide. Less than three years later, President George W. Bush delivered a far different message to voucher supporters--a declaration of victory. In January 2004, Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five-year experiment. The recipients of the first federal "opportunity scholarships," as advocates named them, were announced in June. The D.C. program is a landmark, representing the first federally funded school voucher program. Moreover, by design the D.C. vouchers are more generous than those approved in Milwaukee, Cleveland, Florida, and Colorado, although they are generally limited to fewer children. How school voucher advocates engineered the breakthrough is the story of a complex of alignment of interests among conservative education activists, the Republicans who control Washington, and the local leaders of a majority African-American city. (Contains 1 table.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10