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To: J.B.C. who wrote (33002)	8/29/2000 11:41:38 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Throwing more money at public schools is not the answer, that has been tried and has already failed. Since schools are a state issue, I am only familiar with my state. The greatest improvement to the schools came when a rather strange plan was created to distribute part of the property tax money used to finance the schools among different districts. The property rich districts stayed about the same, the property poor districts got better. That pretty much agrees with the voucher study. I don't know where they are throwing all that money, but they sure don't go around throwing more money at Texas schools. There are a lot of interesting proposals to place choice in the hands of parents. Voucher is a code word for the worst of the proposals, which in practice is to just divert tax money to religous institutions. The really private, private schools don't want vouchers, they would just as soon continue to pick and choose the "special scolarship" students that attend. TP