To help them make that choice, schools would be given grades and rated. Significantly for schools, money flows on a per-pupil basis, and that money would move to the new school as the child made the shift. Bradley's package also contains a requirement boosting testing requirements for teachers. Bradley has already proposed grant and loan programs for teachers in training who agree to teach in distressed rural and urban high schools, and the new focus on teacher quality meets the demands of parents. The school choice issue is a touchy one for Bradley because he routinely is attacked by Gore for votes he cast in favor of experiments with school vouchers.
Vouchers allow parents to pick the school their child attends, public or private.
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