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The November 1993 school-choice movement polls - Includes related article - Brief Article
The November 1993 elections will prove whether California parents prefer having education vouchers. An extensive election campaign is being waged on the pros and cons of Proposition 174 which grants $2,600 to every student enrolled in a public or even a private school.See the full content of this document
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Getting an education.
With a big test coming up in November, the school-choice movement is learning from its mistakes.
"Think of it as the Thirty Years' War," says Oregon's Martin Buchanan of the national fight for school choice. And there is more than a durational likeness to Europe's 17th-century sectarian conflict. The public schools are America's official religion, an obligatory presence in every burg and hamlet. Attacks on them will be repulsed with heavy casualties, as Buchanan, a Portland-based writer of computer manuals, knows. The first statewide voucher initiative he drafted lost by more than 2-to-1 at the polls in 1990, and he is fatalistic about the second try, due next year. Fatalism is also a good attitude to have about the choice initiative on California's November 2 special-election ballot. The most prominent attempt yet to allocate tax money to households instead of school districts so that everyone can enjoy reasonable alternatives to the government's Brand X, Proposition 174 is under withering bombardment from the education establishment. Early polls were favorable, but a mid-August Field poll found the initiative opposed b...See the full content of this document
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