AP: Bush Reintroduces School Voucher Plan

[Eugene]

Bush Reintroduces School Voucher Plan


Wednesday January 24, 2007 3:16 AM

By NANCY ZUCKERBROD

AP Education Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is making another run at giving poor students
private school vouchers, but the Democratic-controlled Congress appears ready
to block that move.

The White House unveiled details Tuesday of the president's proposals for
overhauling the No Child Left Behind law, which is up for renewal this year.

The administration's proposal calls for giving vouchers to students in schools
that persistently fail to meet progress goals set by the federal law.

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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who became chairman of the Senate committee
overseeing education when Democrats took over Congress this year, said he would
work to keep vouchers out of the education law.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6367009,00.html

[rocktivity]

1. If our public school systems have problems, let's SOLVE THEM

instead of draining money out of them!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Thothmes]

4. public schools

Right on.

[C_U_L8R]

2. funding fundamentalist madrassas

this is just a fancy kick-back to the christian right

[pepperbear]

3. well you know George, if you really want to improve education.......

just remember this oldie but goodie...


It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber

hey buttboy! how about a plan to deal with it?

[Heidi]

5. Kick. (nt)

[DeepModem Mom]

6. WP: Bush Proposes Adding Private School Vouchers to 'No Child' Law

Bush Proposes Adding Private School Vouchers to 'No Child' Law
By Amit R. Paley
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 25, 2007; Page A16

The Bush administration yesterday unveiled an education plan that would allow poor students at chronically failing public schools to use federal vouchers to attend private and religious schools, angering Democrats who vowed to fight the measure.

The private school vouchers, which on average would be worth $4,000, were among a series of proposals presented yesterday that President Bush hopes will be included in the reauthorization of his signature education initiative, No Child Left Behind.

In a conference call with reporters, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said the initiatives were necessary to help students in the nation's 1,800 most persistently under-performing schools....

Democrats in Congress assailed the plan -- which also would allow low-performing schools to override union contracts or become charter schools despite state laws limiting their creation -- and expressed concern that the politically charged proposals could delay the reauthorization, which is scheduled for this year.

"Ideological proposals like private school vouchers and attacks on collective-bargaining agreements won't help this reauthorization move forward on shared, bipartisan goals," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012401982.html

[Erika]

7. Yawn n/t

[crickets]

8. "Adding Private School Vouchers to 'No Child' Law" But of course. That was the plan all along. nt

[eagler]

10. Here's an idea they should try

Try adequately funding all public schools! Pay teachers what they are worth. Provide all students with good safe learning environments. Stop the underfunded mandate stuff.

[MadHound]

9. Well, hopefully our new Dem majorities will kill this little gem,

Along with the rest of NCLB. A god-awful piece of legislation whose only real purpose is to dumb down the populace, and drive public schools right into the ground in favor either homeschooling or private, mostly religious schooling.

[gratuitous]

11. They're scraping the bottom of the idea drawer, aren't they?

Any other moldy-oldies they can dust off and pretend to be a new idea?

[Nickster]

12. Hey folks! Here's a 10% off the price of a Lamborghini coupon! YAY!

More tax breaks for the wealthy! YAY!