Private schools are fine.
But not with money that's already designed for the 90 percent of the American children who go to public schools. Now is a time when we ought to be really beefing up our public schools, making a very deep and firm commitment by the American people to really bring revolutionary progress to our schools. Gore is attempting to draw an implied contrast with former senator Bill Bradley, who once voted to allow a limited voucher experiment but now says he opposes such programs.