Al Gore, who is running for president as the protector of public schools against vouchers, sent his own children to private schools.

To fight against vouchers that drain money from public schools?

Ultimately, many of those on both sides agreed, excellent public schools are the best defense against vouchers.

Quite simply, union leaders are against vouchers because they fear such efforts will divert money into less unionized, or non-union, schools.

"The congressman in there now has voted against vouchers and federally funded scholarships."

But if your only concern is providing public resources to educate children, it's hard to make a general case against vouchers.

But I have been against vouchers from the beginning.

But in Maine, courts ruled against vouchers for those reasons.

Which is why I support charter schools but am totally against vouchers.

For critics, however, the fight against vouchers goes on.