In his State of the Union address on Monday night, President Bush called for another education initiative: Pell Grants for Kids. It would be a $300 million program that channeled tax dollars to low-income parents to help them send their children to private or religious schools. Some top lawmakers denounced the plan as a national "voucher" program that would drain resources from urban public schools.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/washington/29educ.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment