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Article #1103DAFN Flight...
From: makemyday
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:42
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:42
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It'z not just whites fleeing. DAFNz are fleeing from their own selvz... http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-school-vouchers,0,4606503.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines *********************** exZZZZZZZZZZZZZerpt ************************* Students Use Vouchers to *FLEE* DC Schools -- September 1, 2004 WASHINGTON -- As the school year begins, more than 1,000 students are using a new voucher program to escape troubled public schools in the nation's capital. Officials running the nation's first federally funded voucher program said Wednesday the response was overwhelming. Seventy-four percent of students who applied for vouchers and were determined to be eligible are enrolled in participating private and parochial schools, and more applications are under review. "We have 1,011 students that have been placed in 53 schools," said Sally Sachar, president of the Washington Scholarship Fund, the nonprofit group administering the program for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Department of Education.... Numerous problems in the D.C. Public Schools have fueled interest in the program. The system has its fifth permanent superintendent in nine years. In February, a student was shot dead inside a high school, allegedly by another student. Enrollment is down, including more than 10,000 students who departed for publicly funded charter schools. ******************************************************************** The common denominator (what is being fled from) is *DAFNz*. Or is it that SAFNz are preferable to DAFNz? AN iq-75 MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE money on... Supreme Court, 1954, Brown vs. DNA, a total LOOZer...
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