News
Catholic voucher foes organize
Oakland Catholics Opposing Vouchers want to make sure Catholic parents hear all facets of Proposal 1. October 13, 2000.
Port Huron joins the growing list of local Chambers voting to oppose Proposal 1. Reported in the September 21, 2000 edition of the Port Huron Times Herald.
Voucher supporters love to point to a Harvard study to show that vouchers
improve test scores. Now the New York Times reports that the company that
gathered the study data says that their data doesn't support the study's
conclusions. September 15, 2000.
Voucher approval won't mean automatic private school admission
Those funding Proposal 1say parochial schools won't exclude students, but those running the schools are quick to say they will. The Oakland Press, September 10, 2000
The Detroit News reports on the final ballot language for Proposal 1, which will include an official admission that tuition tax credits would be allowed by this consitutional amendment. August 19, 2000
The Detroit Free Press discovers that Proposal 1 is really about paying private school tuition throughout the state. July 22, 2000
The Tuesday, July 18, 2000 Grand Rapids Press includes this story about a voucher supporter who's decided he's undecided about vouchers.
A June 30, 2000 Washington Post article suggests that the recent Supreme Court decision allowing public funds for religious school computer purchases reveals a Court majority opposed to vouchers.
After 10 years, the Milwaukee voucher schools have shown no measurable academic improvement while generating public school budget deficits and avoiding any public accountability. From the June 5, 2000 issue of The Nation.
An April 30, 2000 Oakland Press story shows that the private school support for
vouchers is an inch deep: if they will be held accountable for this money, they
don't want it.
New Zealand School Vouchers Lead to Segregation, Unequal Access
The results of New Zealand's voucher experiment are the subject of a recent Brookings Institution study. This article in the new edition of the American Association of School Administrator's "Leadership News" reviews this study.
In its Winter 1999 issue, Rethinking Schools, a Milwaukee-based education reform group, describes the religious school response to increased voucher-school accountability: such oversight would be an unconstitutional entanglement between the state and religion.
Voucher advocates say voters should decide the matter
A February 6th, 2000 Macomb Daily news story makes a fair summary of the arguments offered by both sides of the voucher debate.
Looking at Vouchers: Proposal broader than at first blushA Gongwer News Service article published on January 4, 2000 represents a rare example of a news organization that understands the true impact of the voucher proposal.
Should Choice Schools Have to Disclose More?A December 13, 1999 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report on the growing debate regarding whether that city’s voucher schools should adopt the same rules on discrimination and conduct the same proficiency testing as public schools.
Unfinished Business in Milwaukee
Professor Alex Molar, the Director of the Center for Education Research, Analysis and Innovation at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee asks why launch a national voucher experiment when we haven’t fully examined the one we have? Appearing in the November 17, 1999 edition of Education Week.
Church leaders see the voucher proposal as an opportunity for new funding. This October 18, 1999 news article, published by the Traverse City Record Eagle, includes a statement by a Detroit church pastor who wants to build a school if the voucher campaign succeeds.
Civil rights activist Coretta Scott King calls vouchers "a shameful disservice to children" and instead urges increased parental involvement, the use of technology and reduced class sizes, on October 28, 1999.
The Detroit News prints an Associated Press story on a recent U. S. Supreme Court decision representing a setback for voucher proponents.