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In Cleveland, nearly all of the private voucher schools are religious.

Parents who have benefited from private vouchers say they are glad for alternatives to public schools.

In Arizona, she has promoted tax credits for donations to private voucher plans.

Unlike public school vouchers, private vouchers are not funded by the government.

"If you drain the money away from the public schools for private vouchers, then that hurts the public schools."

The donor-financed tuition payments awarded by Habele are a form of private vouchers.

Experts variously call for smaller classes, paying urban teachers a bonus, demanding higher standards or offering private vouchers.

Private voucher programs, financed by foundations and individuals, plus the limited government programs so far enacted have already brought forth a market response.

The use of private vouchers for low-income students has been described as a tool for facilitating education reform without becoming immersed in politics.

By contrast, Florida's governor, Jeb Bush, last year gave private vouchers to parents at two low-scoring public school "failures."

Its driving motive is to highlight failure in inner-city schools as dramatically as possible in order to create a ground swell of support for private vouchers or other privatizing schemes.

Now, a nonprofit group has been formed to raise money and administer an entirely private voucher program, Patricia Gray, the president of the Lincoln Park Education Foundation, said yesterday.

Mr. Broad of Sun America, who had previously contributed to Mr. Forstmann's private voucher program, said that almost all of his latest donation, the $100 million that he committed this week, would go to public schools.

We need to promote a commonsense budget that protects our nation's most vulnerable, not one that ends Medicare as we know it and turns it into a private voucher scheme, and that raises college costs for nearly 10 million American students.

The program announced yesterday, if fully financed, would also dwarf all of the private voucher programs that have sprouted in more than three dozen cities and towns in recent years, most of them in response to long-smoldering discontent among parents and businesses with the quality of public education.