Voucher's namesake, mother featured in magazine

Carson Smith — the little boy after whom the state's premiere private school voucher program is named — and his mother Cheryl Smith are on the cover of the June 2005 issue of The School Choice Advocate.

The Smiths are featured in the article "Victory," an account of their two-year fight to get the Carson Smith Special Needs Scholarships into Utah's lawbooks.

"Parents are the ones that make things happen, because they have the passion and the emotional drive to make it happen for their kids," Cheryl Smith was quoted as saying. "I never thought it was possible, but one person can make a difference. It's crazy."

Carson Smith attends the well-respected, $23,000-a-year Carmen B. Pingree School for Children with Autism.

The Advocate is published by the nonprofit Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation.