Douglas County School District considers starting voucher program
POSTED: 11/05/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT
UPDATED: 11/05/2010 03:48:34 PM MDT
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The Douglas County School District is examining starting a voucher program to give students state money to attend private or religious schools.
The school board this summer hired a Colorado Springs lawyer to develop a plan for a voucher system that would give parents 75 percent of state per-pupil funds to attend "nonpublic schools," which could include religious schools.
No other Colorado school district has a voucher program.
A 2003 state law created a voucher pilot program
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