38 is California's voucher proposal for the November elections. Here's the area of this website where you can read up on the top stories covering this battle.
Weekly postings add news and opinion coverage from top California daily newspapers.
You'll also find background material on the people and politics behind the initiative. Ben Wildavsky examines the sometimes-extreme positions held by advocates and opponents of school voucher programs. At one end are those who feel that new scholarship funds are merely paving the way for voucher programs which will in turn undermine all aspects of public schooling. The other side counters with the belief that the public school system is a monopoly that needs to be shaken up. Samuel Freedman reports that many black urban Democrats and the Christian Coalition oddly find themselves in the same boat on the issue of school vouchers.