Religious Liberty

School Voucher Controversy Escalates as National African American Leaders Coalesce Around Issue

CBC members decry campaign to promote vouchers to minority and disadvantaged groups

As Congress prepares to take up education as one of its priorities, members of the Congressional Black Caucus have joined forces with the national African American Ministers Leadership Council, the NAACP and the People For the American Way Foundation to make clear to conservatives who are aggressively pushing voucher legislation that their proposals would hurt most minority and disadvantaged children.

Milwaukee's Vouchers Leave Public Schools More Than $29 Million Short

HARD DECISIONS AHEAD FOR SCHOOL OFFICIALS

Today as Milwaukee begins the new school year, the city's public schools are faced with a looming financial crisis brought on by the diversion of millions of dollars from the public schools' operating funds to pay the cost of vouchers for private and religious schools.

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