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Voucher proponents inculde Walmart heirs. Goal: Destroy Public Education
Pennsylvania: Voucher Ground Zero
Philadelphia Daily News, May 23, 2011, by WILL BUNCH
FOR WEEKS, deep-pocketed advocates for school vouchers - tax dollars to help students attend private or religious schools - in Pennsylvania sold their scheme as the only way for poor children to escape failing urban public schools.
Then some leading tea-party groups objected to the legislation slowly snaking its way through Harrisburg. Their objection: The plan was too generous to poor children.
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