The Truth About The DC Voucher Trap [View All]

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"Fewer than one in four DC families with school-age children would even be eligible for a voucher. Those that do qualify have no guarantee that their children will be accepted to a private school, or that the voucher would cover the costs of a private education."

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=11840


The Facts

"DC Vouchers are an Assault on Public Education
Washington, DC, Opposes Vouchers
DC Vouchers Undermine the Separation Between Church and State
DC Voucher Program Allows Discrimination
Vouchers Don't Improve Academic Success
Lack of Fiscal and Academic Accountability"

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=11878


"The new report, The Voucher Veneer: The Deeper Agenda to Privatize Public Education, is authored by People For the American Way Foundation. The report focuses on a network of Religious Right groups, free-market economists, ultraconservative columnists and others who are using vouchers as a vehicle to achieve their ultimate goal of privatizing most or all of the public education system."

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=11439