The Choice Channel

“While a debate rages over whether parents should be able to use tax money - or tax credits - to choose between public and private schools for their children, the movement to provide school choice to children from low-income families through privately funded vouchers is mushrooming. Thirty-six voucher programs across the nation, operating under the umbrella group Children’s Educational Opportunity Foundation of America (CEO America), pay up to half the tuition at private schools for more than 12,000 children from low-income families - with thousands more on waiting lists. … Sponsors and supporters say more affluent families can escape bad schools by enrolling their children in private schools or moving to areas with better schools.” (04/98)