Florida's voucher program: Legislating what can't be done by referendum

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 81-88

  Elam, Stanley M ^a  

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1. One is reminded of the performance contracting (PC) fad of the early Seventies, when dozens of U.S. school systems - including those of such major cities as Detroit, Dallas, San Diego, and Portland, Oregon - jumped on the accountability bandwagon, and the entire state of Virginia contracted with private industry for public school instruction. The bandwagon broke down soon after the failure of an early PC experiment in Texarkana, Arkansas. Dorsett Education Systems, which held the contract and depended heavily on "teaching machines," was caught teaching the test that determined whether the company would make a profit. For more information, see Stanley M. Elam, "The Age of Accountability Dawns in Texarkana," Phi Delta Kappan, June 1970, pp. 507-14.
2. The Ohio Supreme Court only conditionally approved Cleveland's voucher program. For the program to continue, the Ohio legislature must act.
3. Tom Fiedler, "Why We Believe Vouchers Will Benefit Public-School Students," Miami Herald, 2 May 1999, p. 6-L.
4. "The Voucher Movement," St. Petersburg Times, 13 November 1998, p. 22-A.
5. "The Voucher Capital," St. Petersburg Times, 26 April 1999, p. 10-A.
6. Ibid.
7. "Florida Throws Students a Lifeline," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 21 April 1999, p. 2.
8. "Florida's School Voucher Scheme," New York Times, reprinted in Daytona Beach News-Journal, 5 May 1999, p. 5-A.
9. "Florida's School Voucher Scheme," New York Times, reprinted in Daytona Beach News-Journal, 5 May 1999, p. 5-A.
10. Henry Levin, "The Theory of Choice Applied to Education," quoted in Stanley M. Elam, How America Views Its Schools (Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 1995), p. 51.