By Jacqueline Bueno Sousa Opponents of school vouchers would have you believe that the push for a voucher system is radical, racist and part of a scheme by the power elite to undo the public education system.
Few things are further from the truth.
In fact, a recent New York Times report noted that many young blacks support the voucher program as a way of attaining equality with whites. On the contrary, just as vouchers threaten to restructure the public education system, they also threaten to undo the cozy seclusion of private schools. Hardly a revolutionary, new concept, the idea has been batted about for some 45 years, ever since economist Milton Friedman posed it in a 1955 essay. That it's taken this long to receive serious consideration says much of the inertia that sustains our social services, in this case our education system. And school vouchers certainly are getting attention these days.