Thomas Kean Jr. in Teachers Under Attack!, by Mike Spina

On Education: $6,000 voucher for elementary school; $9,000 for high school

The legislature is debating passage of a bill called the Opportunity Scholarship Act. This bill introduced in the Senate by Democrat Ray Lesniak and Republican Tom Kean, Jr. calls for a 5 year pilot program that would allow eligible low income students who attend chronically failing public schools to be given awards of either $6,000 (elementary school) or $9,000 (high school) that would cover in full a year's tuition at any participating public or non-public (read private) school.

In effect, this would be a school choice program that, in 5 years, could result in as many as 19,000 students abandoning public schools for charter or private schools. The money for the program would be donated by corporations into a scholarship fund, which would be controlled by a selected non-profit scholarship organization. Should there be more students that apply than money is available, then a lottery would be held to choose the students who will win the wards.

Source: Teachers Under Attack!, by Mike Spina, p. 29-30 Feb 17, 2011

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