Bush Proposes Vouchers for All Displaced Students

Bush Proposes Vouchers for All Displaced Students: "September 20, 2005; Page A08

Under President Bush's plan to cover most of the cost of educating students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, parents could enroll their children in a private or religious school this year at federal expense, even if they had gone to public schools back home, administration officials said yesterday.
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'It makes it even worse,' Paul Houston, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, said of the idea that all displaced families could obtain money for private schools. 'It is really a tone-deaf response to the crisis. It is a real grab to get an ideological position across that they haven't been able to achieve under normal circumstances.'
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