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• W208859757 abstract "There must be a finite number of ideas for fixing American education. Watching someone take an old idea and put an innovative spin on it or watching someone else take an old approach and attempt to make it work through sheer determination and repetition leads me to believe that even well-seasoned ideas can be made attractive by charismatic leadership. On the surface, last November's elections, the winding down of 1993, and the approach of a new legislative season all seem somewhat routine. Yes, Proposition 174, the voucher vote in California, was big. But in the end it turned out the same as several other past statewide votes on the issue. Michigan's abolition of the local property tax for education was big news in the summer, but by December everything seemed to point to another statewide vote that will not look much different from those in the past. And, of course, the dialogue about education reform goes on, much like an endless loop of tape playing through a recorder. The same issues, similar words, and transplanted ideas move from state to state. But every once in a while some interesting variations and repetitions of old themes pop up. Perhaps these are what contribute to a sense of hope for 1994. VOUCHERS AND CHOICE The vote to defeat Proposition 174 in California was comparable to similar defeats for voucher plans in statewide votes in Michigan in 1978 (a 3-1 margin); in Washington, D.C., in 1981 (an 8-1 margin); in Oregon in 1990 (a 2-1 margin); and in Colorado in 1992 (also a 2-1 margin). While the California proposition reduced the size of the voucher to $2,600, in the end the idea that vouchers might drain money away from the public schools was probably one of the key factors that led to the defeat of Proposition 174. Voucher proponents like Tom Tancredo, head of the Independence Institute in Colorado, declared the vote a victory for their side and said that they would continue to fine-tune the idea and introduce it in more states in 1994. Meanwhile, voucher advocates in Georgia found a 1961 law still on the books that allowed students to flee desegregated schools and take state money to private academies. The state attorney general declared the law unusable, but advocates were preparing a new version that would: 1) let parents spend state dollars on any school of choice, including religious schools; 2) strike the process of hearings included in the 1961 law and require only that parents apply for grants; 3) make the new voucher comply with the Quality Basic Education Act; 4) phase in a voucher plan starting with the poor or make use of a lottery system to select students; and 5) deregulate public schools and fund them with vouchers, establishing the amount of the voucher by tying it to the average per-pupil expenditure. In late October, Lt. Gov. Pierre Howard called upon the education committee of the Georgia senate to conduct two days of hearings on the subject. One of the advocates appearing as an expert witness was Bret Schundler, the Republican mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey. With the Jersey City council, Schundler tried to give the citizens of his city a chance to vote on vouchers by placing a nonbinding referendum on the November ballot. He and the council were unsuccessful. The Georgia debate will probably surface again with the proposed legislation in January. After checking with the Monday morning quarterbacks in California, some observers with Republican leanings said that, while Gov. Pete Wilson wasn't supportive of the initiative and while they never expected it to win, they did see the voucher initiative as an excellent mobilization tool - an effort that gathered lots of names for use in the next Presidential campaign. TAXES AND MORE TAXES From New Jersey to Washington to Oregon, taxes seemed to play a big part in the 1993 elections. Since May, tax-limitation advocates attempting to force the government of the state of Washington to live within its means were pushing Initiative 601 and Initiative 602. …" @default.
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