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To: ThirdEye who wrote (141919)	5/2/2001 10:53:38 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769667

re: vouchers The United States has a public and private universities which compete directly for federal, state and private monies. They also compete for students and faculty, doesn't seem to hurt them. In the State of California, there are Cal Grants that provide State money to qualified students that helps pay tuition at Private Institutions. To my knowledge, Federal financial aid programs do not discriminate against students going to private universities either. Why should an 18 year old going to Stanford get State money to go to school, while an 18 year old going to high school shouldn't. The number of great universities in the US is probably equal the rest of the world combined. At the same time, we have one of the worst public primary and secondary school systems in the industrialized world. How much of this is because of the competition between Universities and Colleges (public and private) for resources, and the lack of competition between primary and secondary schools. I believe that public schools can compete with private schools. Anyway, Private Institutions have a problem that Public institutions don't have...Like sometimes having to take an inferior student just because his father is an alumnus and/or US Senator :o)