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Help! DC School Voucher Program On the Brink . . .
Last night, the House voted 221-202 in favor of an omnibus spending bill that - if also passed in the Senate - will once and for all kill the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program. Comment?
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DC Vouchers Face Renewal Battle
While DC parents and children wait to find out whether the District of Columbia's popular school voucher program will be renewed, the U.S. House of Representatives delivered a blow by voting late on December 10 to let it expire. Comment?
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House lifts ban on D.C. abortion funding
The House passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill Thursday that gives the District of Columbia more control over such local issues as funding abortions and legalizing medical marijuana. Comment?
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Dems Give DC Taxpayer Abortion, Drugs
... And just in time for the holidays! Meanwhile, these same Democrats also seek to kill public funding for school vouchers - " which doesn't cost any local tax money, since it is federally funded. And won't it be wonderful when the District will no ... Comment?
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House Approves Bill That Would Ease Federal Grip on Washington
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... 2007. Thursday's legislation also marks the probable end to the city's school voucher program. The future of school vouchers in Washington "would best be decided by the elected representatives of the people of the District," federal lawmakers said ... Comment?
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DC School Choice Leaders Blast Appropriators' Decision to Kill School Voucher Program
The leaders of D.C.'s school choice movement, Kevin P. Chavous and Virginia Walden Ford , today issued the following statement: "House and Senate Appropriators this week ignored the wishes of D.C.'s mayor, D.C.'s public schools chancellor, a majority of D.C.'s city council, and more than 70 percent of D.C. residents and have mandated the slow death ... Comment?
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Durbin wins: Limits likely on D.C. school vouchers
Thanks to Sen. Dick Durbin, Congress appears likely to keep the D.C. voucher program closed to new students, curtailing the hopes of advocates who had pressed for a full revival of the program. Comment?
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Streamlining ideas confront reality
... brought about some of the more controversial and sweeping ideas, such as the ones dealing with Citizens and school vouchers. There is no doubt that the panel members are passionate about finding smarter ways to run state government even if they've ... Comment?
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President Obama kills D.C. voucher program and Washington Scholarship Fund
... effect of this bill and the fact that Congress has delayed re-authorizing the program is that private school vouchers will cease to be an option for more than 1,300 students. But we learn today that the impact of President Obama's decision to limit ... Comment?
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Streamlining ideas meet reality
... brought about some of the more controversial and sweeping ideas, such as the ones dealing with Citizens and school vouchers. There is no doubt that the panel members are passionate about finding smarter ways to run state government even if they've ... Comment?
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Will Obama's School Reform Plan Work?
... and curiosity. It worked for some kids, but too many others ended up merely distracted. In the '90s, school vouchers - publicly financed scholarships for low-income students to attend private schools - were praised as a way to give families choices ... Comment?
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New Poll: Latino Voters Support School Vouchers
Hispanic CREO and the Alliance are non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C. The bipartisan poll, conducted by the polling company, inc. Comment?
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Tell lawmakers you oppose same-sex marriage
... or two daddies as appropriate in our society. This provides fodder for good people to rise up in favor of school vouchers so that parents can choose how their children are taught. The teachers union is being controlled by the same people who are ... 2 comments
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You know you live in an upside-down world when teachers actively fight against the interests of kids. Comment?
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DC private schools moving to become charters
... Post Kevin Chavous and Anthony Williams make the case again for continuing allowing students to use private school vouchers . But the question becomes, if the program continues where will these kids go? Comment?
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Small increase seen in Fla. revenue estimate
State economists Friday predicted Florida's general revenue will be less than 2 percent higher than previously forecast for the current fiscal year and the three that follow it. Comment?
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District private school vouchers program - let it go
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The clock has run and it is now time to let the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program end and all successor District private school vouchers legislation pending in Congress to fade away. Comment?
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Record 175,000 workers get help under U-Care fund
... erage year. And to conclude the year's efforts, the movement also gave out over S$5 million worth of Back-to-School vouchers to help 43,200 needy children prepare for the new school term. - CNA/ir Comment?
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Robinson a persistent free-market candidate
Jack E. Robinson III does not give up easily. He has run for Congress twice before in the last 10 years, with an unsuccessful bid for Massachusetts secretary of state in between. Comment?
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Small increase seen in Fla. revenue estimate
The revised estimate reflects an expected improvement in Florida's economy although a full recovery isn't expected to begin in earnest until 2010. Comment?
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