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Voucher Alert 

 Thu Mar 20, 2:02pm , 2008

Expect to see some form of vouchers-lite come out of the Texas Education Agency in the next couple of weeks.

Education Commissioner Robert Scott is expected to use his administrative powers to create a grant program to recover high school dropouts. Public and private schools likely would be given a per-student reimbursement for recovering the students.

Scott has argued such a program should not be deemed a voucher, per se, but talk is that it will be close enough to a voucher to please multimillionaire Jim Leininger, who has poured $8 million of his own money into recent elections in order to get vouchers passed.

Local education groups promise a courthouse brawl if TEA bypasses the Legislature to approve any program that might open the door on vouchers.

 

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Direct versus Indirect Funding guest Mar 21, 2008 - 01:02 pm
If the TEA contracts with a religious school to recover drop-outs, the Supreme Court's ruling apprving the Celeveland voucher program would not apply. There, the government funds were "washed" through the free and independent choice of the parents. Here, it would be a direct government check to a religious entity. See you in court?




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