Spellings Defends Vouchers for Evacuees

[Eugene]

Spellings Defends Vouchers for Evacuees


Wednesday September 21, 2005 10:46 PM

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By BEN FELLER

AP Education Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Wednesday
defended a White House plan to help Hurricane Katrina evacuees pay
for private schooling.

Spellings also warned that education programs may be cut to help pay
for President Bush's disaster aid plan. Neither she nor her aides
identified what those cuts might be.

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Overall, the devastating Gulf Coast hurricane, which has displaced
roughly 372,000 students from Mississippi and Louisiana, was the
dominant topic in Spellings' remarks.

Bush wants Congress to approve up to $1.9 billion to cover 90 percent
of the tab for educating those students, an unprecedented federal
share. Typically, the federal government contributes less than 10
percent of education spending despite an increasingly hands-on role.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5293770,00.html

Use the disaster to defund public education while pumping billions
into private schools. The real looters weren't in New Orleans,
they're in Washington.

[preciousdove]

1. I will put my voucher next to...

my point of light

my prescription benefit card that makes my drugs more expensive

my bus ticket out of NOLA

my skyrocketing fuel bills

my last email from my nephew killed in Iraq

my last pay stub for the job that is now in India

my copy of the Constitution and bill of Rights

[MichiganVote]

2. Cuts for public education? What's left?