The Voucher Revival | |||
Conservative efforts to bring vouchers back to the District just highlight how much such programs have fallen out of favor.
In the last-minute horse-trading and compromising before reaching a budget deal, House Speaker John Boehner won from Democrats a small, weird concession: the renewal and expansion of the District of Columbia's school voucher program. Known as the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, it was the first federally-funded voucher system. Congress ran it from 2004 until 2009, when the Obama administration began to wind it down. The District -- already the epicenter of aggressive school reform measures -- woke up last Saturday morning and found that its old voucher program had returned. For years, conservatives preached the virtues of vouchers programs as a solution to the country's ailing education system (D.C.'s program always played a |
Monday, April 18, 2011
The Voucher Revival
The Voucher Revival
