News in Brief: A National Roundup

Details of a nationwide, privately financed tuition-assistance program for schoolchildren were announced last week.

Programs in 36 cities, as well as statewide programs in Arkansas and Michigan, will offer private school vouchers from the Children's Scholarship Fund, a philanthropic effort unveiled in June by investor Theodore J. Forstmann and businessman John Walton. ( "Millionaires To Back National Voucher Project," June 10, 1998.) Mr. Forstmann and Mr. Walton matched $70 million raised locally with their own funds, for a total of $140 million for the assistance program. The two have pledged to donate up to $100...