Privatizing education: The politics of vouchers

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 450-456

  Kennedy, Sheila Suess ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0039032466     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170108200608     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. John F. Witte, The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 157.
2. Doug Oplinger and Dennis J. Willard, "Voucher System Falls Far Short of Goals," Akron Beacon Journal, 14 December 1999, p. A-1;
3. Dennis J. Willard and Doug Oplinger, "Voucher Plan Leaves Long List of Broken Vows," Akron Beacon Journal, 14 December 1999;
4. and Dennis J. Willard and Doug Oplinger, idem, "School Battle Eludes Voters, Takes Its Cues from Coalitions," Akron Beacon Journal, 15 December 1999.
5. Rob Boston, "The Public School Bashers," Church & State, vol. 51, 1998, pp. 196-202.
6. Theodore Lowi, The End of the Republican Era (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995).
7. Oplinger and Willard, The End of the Republican Era (1995). op. cit. Parents whose children were already enrolled in these schools are now receiving vouchers to defray the costs. This has slowed the exodus from Catholic to public schools that had been occurring prior to institution of the program. John Witte reports similar results in Milwaukee.
8. William Blomquist, personal interview, 25 January 2000.
9. Brian Vargus, personal interview, 25 January 2000.
10. Witte, p. 203.
11. Oplinger and Willard, op. cit.
12. Willard and Oplinger, "Voucher Plan Leaves Long List of Broken Vows."
13. Oplinger and Willard, "Voucher Plan Leaves Long List of Broken Vows." op. cit.
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15. Witte, p. 14.
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18. Russell Hardin, "Trust in Government," in Valerie Braithwaite and Margaret Levi, eds., Trust and Governance (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998), p. 12.
19. John Witte projects that "a full cost, universal voucher program would cost taxpayers an additional amount somewhere between $13.3 billion and S72.7 billion annually, depending upon the nature of the program" (Witte, p. 20).
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27. Haldane, p. 71.
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34. and Marla E. Sukstorf, Amy Stuart Wells, and Robert L. Crain, "A Re-examination of Chubb and Moe's Politics, Markets, and America's Schools," in Rasell and Rothstein, School Choice (1993); op. cit.
35. Chubb and Moe, p. 1.
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37. Macedo, p. 21.
38. Kennedy, p. 182.
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40. Minow, "America Skips School," Harper's Magazine, 1993, p. 43. op. cit.
41. Macedo, p. 43.
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