Suck it and see
Ontario tries school vouchers
GEORGE BUSH may have given up school vouchers, but across the northern border Ontario's premier, Mike Harris, is being much braver. After several false starts, he has brought in a plan far more radical than anything yet seen in the United States. It offers parents who send their child to a private school a refund in the form of a tax credit. This will rise over five years in steps of C$700 ($460) a year to C$3,500, or half the cost to the province of keeping a pupil in a public school.
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