Some 35,000 children nationwide will be awarded K-8 scholarships and given the opportunity to attend the private or parochial school of their choice. CSF's efforts, which represent the largest single expansion of privately funded school choice programs to date, are built on the foundation laid by CEO America over the past six years. By the fall of 1999, the CSF expansion is expected to increase the number of private voucher programs from 42 to near 70, serving approximately 50,000 children. Applications will be accepted until April 1999, and all awards will be announced on April 17. The distinction is not between public education and private education, continued Forstmann, but between good education and bad education.
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