By Brendan Fischer, PR Watch
[…]“Opportunity Scholarships,” introduced in four states — Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, and New Mexico — earmark vouchers for students in schools deemed “failing.”
The similar Smart Start Scholarship Program, introduced in four states — Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Tennessee — offers vouchers for pre-school and kindergarten on a sliding scale starting with families eligible for reduced price school lunches. The strategy with these bills is to use the notion of helping poor families as a first step towards expanding taxpayer-funded, private “scholarships” to any family, regardless of their ability to afford private school.
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