GOP Proposes New National Voucher Plan
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and key GOP lawmakers unveiled a proposal last week to offer vouchers to students in schools that fail for six years to make adequate academic gains under the No Child Left Behind Act.
The action came days after a Senate committee passed a measure to raise the household-income cap for the the 2-year-old federal voucher program for the District of Columbia. The change would be limited to students already in the program.
The proposed new program would offer families vouchers worth as much as $4,000 for private school tuition, or $3,000 for supplemental educational services outside the regular school day. Secretary Spellings estimated that the $100 million competitive-grant program could...
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