327 individuals applied to be tutors in the program. The tutoring program for public school students was designed to counter critics' charge that vouchers would fail to benefit low-income students, the overwhelming majority of whom would remain in public schools. Yet even this modest response to the needs of low-income public school students failed to materialize in any significant way. It is hard to speculate why so few students received tutoring grants. For now, all we know is that the program did not meet expectations.
More research needs to be done on the reasons for the program's limited reach.
Nevertheless, they were classified as public school students. In our presentation of enrollment figures on the following page, we classify kindergartners separately. Thus, they later made additional offers to families of private school students.