D.C. vouchers: What you need to know
Here are some things you should know about the D.C. school voucher program that House Majority leader John Boehner took on as a personal mission to save. According to this important investigation by my colleagues Lyndsey Layton and Emma Brown: * Hundreds of D.C. student who receive money from the congressionally created program attend unattended schools, including one school whose curriculum is based on a Bulgarian psychotherapist’s philosophy and one Nation of Islam school.
* Though public dollars are used to pay for the tuition at these private schools, public officials have no say in what or how these institutions’ students are taught. The story says:“The director of the nonprofit organization that manages the D.C. vouchers on behalf of the federal government calls quality control ‘a blind spot.’ ”
* More than 90 percent of students at some of these schools receive tuition money from the
