As January data are inflated by a growing tendency towards gift vouchers over Christmas, which are then turned into purchases afterwards, a return to normal in February is likely to show up in more subdued sales.
Quotes about vouchers (16 Quotes)
Most families have a choice of where they can go. They can go to other public housing or they can use Section 8 vouchers.
If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.
It's not like throwing a bone to the far right, it's like throwing a carcass, ... He's voted for school vouchers, against affirmative action, against abortion. He has voted for very punitive juvenile justice legislation. He has voted for a constitutional amendment (banning) flag desecration. He is the architect of efforts to give federal funding to religiously controlled institutions -- he doesn't seem to have much regard for separation of church and state.
Science and engineering students typically have the most expensive books, with their editions tending to be updated frequently and having supplemental materials like CD-ROMs. Some of my books are expensive, ... I usually get book vouchers from my loans and use that money to buy books from the bookstore.
It's a little early to assume that the Supreme Court would give blessing to vouchers. Everybody is trying to make assumptions based on a case that is not a voucher case.
Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.
I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.
The governor, legislators and those charged with the responsibility of educating Florida's children should now forget about vouchers for private and church-run schools and work for the improvement of neighborhood public schools.
Polls and focus groups show younger blacks less likely to identify themselves as Democrats, and more likely to support partial privatization of Social Security, school vouchers and the abolition of race-based preferences. This spells trouble for the Democratic Party and its monolithic black vote.
The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice.
To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice vouchers.
It's window dressing for the benefit of social conservatives, ... The president may feel that whatever support he will lose among fiscal conservatives, he will win from conservatives proud of him for bootlegging vouchers in the relief plan.
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Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
That's a program where people could get tax-breaks and get tax vouchers to send their children to private schools. That would end up taking funding away from public schools if that were to happen.