Tuesday, October 27, 1992
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Focus on the candidates and the issue of..
This is the second in a series of five groups of articles addressing the views the three main presidential candidates have on the issues of this election.
Education
"The president makes a big point of the fact that you can't solve the education problems by throwing money at it."
— Max Heim, professor of education policy and administration
"He did create a lot of good changes in Arkansas, I don't think many would argue with that."
Susan Fuhman, director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Rutgers University
"He thinks everybody should be able to go to college. I know Perot. He'll find out some way to do that."
Source: Kansan staff research
— Darrel King, Shawnee County coordinator for the Perot campaign
Bush pushes laissez-faire schools
Dan Schauer / KANSAN
By Lynne McAdoo
Kansan staff writer
President George Bush wants to change the education system.
"The president makes a big point of the fact that you can't solve the education problems by throwing money at it," said Max Heim, KU professor of education policy and administration. "I think that's right. You can."
Bush wants to accomplish the change by a controversial plan called the "GI Bill for Children." The plan would give $1,000 in vouchers, or federal aid, to 500,000 low-income and middle-income families to use to attend the school of their choice -- public, private or religious. But the program has raised questions about the separation of church and state as well as who would actually benefit from the program.
ANALYSIS
Bush believes the voucher system should operate similar to a free market. Competition is the guiding principle of the Bush education plan.
Joanne Orlowski, director of Citizens for Education Freedom, supports the voucher system because she said the competition would force both public and private schools to raise their standards.
"Wherever there is any competition, they have to sell their product," she said. "The schools aren't going to want to lose students."
But while proponents of this plan hope it would stimulate excellence in schools, some education experts say the logistics of the plan would create obstacles.
"He's misguided in the voucher sys-
ten," Heim said. "I really think that it would be a mistake."
Heims said the voucher would not do any good if the child could not get to the school.
"They're not going to bus you," he said.
Other Bush education proposals include:
■ increasing funding for Head Start
He wants to enable every eligible four-year-old to participate in Head Start for one year.
- supporting a "Lifelong Learing Act" that would give U.S. workers $25,000 to pay for education and training to earn a college degree.
- increasing Pell grants. Bush requested $6.6 billion for the Pell grant program, a 22 percent increase since last year, and a 48 percent increase since 1989.
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