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school vouchers

SOURCE: Washington Post
4/26/2023

How the Reagan Administration Used "A Nation at Risk" to Push for School Privatization

by Valerie Strauss and James Harvey

One of the educators who served on the commission that developed an influential report on the state of American education argues that the report was built to serve an anti-public school ideology, and that its conclusions were a foundation for the culture war battles over schooling today.

SOURCE: NY Daily News
7-24-17

Are school vouchers bad because early proponents had racist motivations?

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Call it the fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree fallacy: If something had evil roots, it remains evil.

SOURCE: philly.com
2-19-17

Is compromise possible on school vouchers?

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos actually represent different strands of the voucher movement, which used to attract liberals and conservatives alike.