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Do vouchers equal segregation?

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Henry Smith | 10:53 a.m. Nov. 2, 2008
In Virginia, vouchers were created in the 1950s during the time when a number of public schools shut down rather than comply with integration efforts. They functioned to allow whites to attend 'private' all-white schools, while leaving black students without an education.

School voucher programs today are less explicit in their motives. Indeed, the vast majority of them are proposed in an attempt to provide students with a better education. But they leave all the other students in a worse situation as a result.

If we think there is a problem with public schools, let's fix public schools. Allowing more affluent, typically white, students to leave a bad situation where others are STUCK is simply unfair.

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Principal Galey Colosimo of Juan Diego believes that vouchers will help diversify private schools.

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