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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you're poorly informed. DC has a school voucher program that is a miserable failure. Most of the students go to schools that are almost entirely voucher-funded and there is no accredation or accountability process for these voucher schools. The state of these schools is extremely bad. Vouchers will not fix the public education challenges in our city or in our country.[/quote]

They go to parochial schools that cost less than $10,000, many of which are Blue Ribbon schools where kids learn a great deal in a safe environment.  What's wrong with that?  PP, you sound like a DCPS troll.[/quote]

+1.

I see this as the proverbial win/win.

Vouchers capped at around $10k and for low income families only should be a policy priority nationwide.

For example, those ESL students so many b*tch about would love to attend fine parochial schools, and those parochial schools would love to welcome them.[/quote]

What are you going to say when Islamic schools start opening to use the vouchers?

Catholic schools are dying off in the US, and it's not because there's not a market for $10,000/year private schools. Plus the Catholic schools in this area already offer support to needy students. $10,000 vouchers simply are not going to create a market in this area. [/quote]

I'd have no problem with Islamic schools, assuming they go through same accreditation as all privates must go.

In fact, it could be a good idea to require certain standards for all private schools to access voucher money.[/quote]

I said it upthread. Currently there are NO accredation standards for the voucher schools in DC. There is at least one school run by the Nation of Islam that is largely voucher-funded. This is a terrible program.[/quote]

OK, so that's one of the aspects to fix before scaling up the voucher idea.[/quote]

Call up Ms. DeVos and give her that advice. I'm sure she'll be glad to hear from you.[/quote]

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