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Bailing out of Public Education
Schrag, Peter | October 4, 1993 issue

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The article focuses on the availability of school vouchers in California. One out of every four California schoolchildren comes from a family on welfare; nearly half of those who entered the first grade last year came from a home where little or no English is spoken; more than 55 percent are Latino, Afro-American or Asian. For the better part of a generation, as the percentage of poor and minority children in California's schools has increased--and as the gap between the state's middle-aged, middle-class voters and the parents of school-age children has grown--the state's spending for schools has declined relative to other states.

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EDUCATION & state; EDUCATIONAL vouchers; SCHOOL children; EDUCATION -- Finance; SCHOOLS; CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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