Conn. District Considers Vouchers As Alternative to Classrooms

By Joanna Richardson

Spurred by a sharp increase in student enrollment, some Fairfield, Conn., residents are proposing a voucher plan as a way to cut school costs.

The proposal would allow parents in Fairfield, an affluent community an hour north of New York City, to use public money to send their children to private or parochial schools.

With the public schools already at capacity, the town would have to build new classroom space to house the roughly 1,500 additional children who are expected to enroll in its schools over...