Voucher proposal will be battleground for Pennsylvania Governor Corbett's education plan

Eric Boehm:

A plan to provide vouchers to students from low-income families and are enrolled in failing schools is at the center of a four-point education reform agenda, but the Corbett administration declined to state how much these reforms would cost taxpayers.

Calling on lawmakers to give students and their families access to the widest variety of educational options, Gov. Tom Corbett announced Tuesday a plan that would:

Offer a voucher program;

Expand the educational tax credit program;

Create a new statewide commission to oversee and evaluate charter schools;

Overhaul state's teacher evaluation process.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 15, 2011 1:50 AM
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