The same $7 million that proponents wish to use for up to 2,000 students in the District of Columbia to attend private school could be more responsibly spent by using the proven Success For All reading program in every public elementary school in the city plus 70 after-school enrichment programs. ...

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The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ...

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