Letters to the Editor
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Private School vouchers
I was alarmed when NPR noted this particluar nugget from Bush's sotu adrress. I live in a town where the public schools have been decimated because the town won't fund them through property tax increases. A recent state audit showed that the teachers were good, the students motivated, but that if the town does not support the schools financially they will probably be taken over by the state. Because we are a town with a lot of low-income, transient, and immigrant students, the obstacles in the way of achieving the standards mandated (without funds) by "No Child Left Behind" are enormous. And the schools are facing this challenge with staff abd programs cut to the bone. I have put my own child in private school. What is happening in the public schools is that the poor children are all being left behind in schools that are failing because no one is willing to fund them. And Bush has the gall to blame the schools.