That, of course, is the point. Vouchers not only offer better education more cheaply to the children who receive them; they also force rotten public schools to improve, by pinching their students if they don't, as at least four studies in Florida have shown. For Justice Pariente and her colleagues, however, what matters is not that public schools be any good, but that they should remain a coach satchel bags,
Voucher opponents rejoiced, but not ecstatically. “It hardly seems like a victory,” said one union leader, before demanding higher salaries for his members. The ruling affects only the smallest of Florida's school-choice programmes, serving a mere 700 or so students. Two larger programmes appear safe, for now: one because it is funded by tax credits rather than vouchers, and the Coach Outlet,because its beneficiaries are disabled, which the court said meant they should be left alone.
Nationally, and despite constant legal attacks, vouchers Coach Outlet, eading. The Alliance for School Choice called 2005 the “best year ever” for new legislation, with six states enacting new programmes or extending old ones. Some
130,000 children are expected to benefit directly this year, excluding the 370,000 theoretically eligible under a federal bill aimed at those displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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