Bush Speech Focuses on Economy, Not Education
WASHINGTON--While acknowledging education's importance in improving the nation's competitiveness, President Bush last week proposed no major new education initiatives in a State of the Union Message that focused on economic policy.
One new education proposal was included in the Administration's budget: a $500 million education voucher plan that would give "low and middle income" parents federal and state funds to enroll their children in private or public schools.
The proposal included in the budget is bolder than the $200-million choice plan the Administration offered last year as part of its America 2000 education strategy. And public-education advocates said last week that it was a peculiar proposal to make just a week after the Senate decisively rejected a much more...
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