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Alert!!! The House has passed D.C. vouchers - by one vote. The bill to be debated in the Senate.
Sept. 14. Email the U.S. Senate Now to Urge them to Stop D.C. Vouchers.
EMAIL D.C. Officials and Congressman Tom Davis, chair of the House D.C. subcommittee
Issue Summary and History: The United States Senate and the United States House of Representative committees on D.C. Appropriations have attached voucher proposals to the D.C. Appropriations legislation (HR 2765, that authorizes spending of local and federal dollars for D.C.. This bill incorporates the voucher plan (HR 2556) of Rep. Tom Davis (R- Va-11). Since February 2003, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.-6) had sought through his bill, H-R 684 (and S.4, Part B by Senator Judd Gregg), to institute taxpayer funded private school tuition grants. HR 684 would award $3,750 to 1600 children at or near the poverty line. Davis' plan, HR-2556, would reportedly grant up to $7,500 to 2000 children. It would drain money from public education funds supporting 80,000 other D.C. children who would be left behind in public charter and traditional schools. Read studies on vouchers: click here. Call the U.S. Senate at 202-225-5074 or 202-225-1492. Read Political Analysis.
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Why are D.C. vouchers bad policy?
While D.C. Mayor Williams and School Board President Cafritz have changed their personal views on vouchers, the D.C. community has not. Vouchers were rejected in a referendum in 1982 and in a survey in November 2002. The School Board issued a resolution against vouchers in July 2002. See D.C. Voucher News for more information
Instituting this voucher plan that originated in Congress and not in the City Council undermines home rule.
Voucher experiments have already been tried and failed in Milwaukee, Dayton, Cleveland, New York and D.C .
Private schools in Washington D.C. and its suburbs have limited capacity to receive even a small number of voucher recipients and that is assuming the private schools would take them. Unlike public schools, private schools would not be bound by accountability for test scores, discrimination on disability or religious grounds or teacher qualifications.
We know vouchers do not work and D.C. does not want them! Read more here on why vouchers are bad policy. Read here for our press releases.
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Read about the D.C Council opposition to D.C. vouchers.