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PUBLIC FUNDS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | May 10, 2000 | Copyright

Education is a public trust. For a century and a half, Americans have taken on the job of providing knowledge and skills to all the nation's children through a system of taxpayer-supported public schools.

Now the public schools in Massachusetts and many other states are being asked to deliver higher performance, pegged to higher standards. Unfortunately, just at this pivotal time, public schools are jeopardized by the voucher movement.

Speaker Thomas Finneran's advance of a state constitutional amendment that would allow public aid to private and parochial schools, if it comes…

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