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Bill Would
Offer School Vouchers to Disabled Children
from The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, January 02, 2003
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Legislation
proposed for the upcoming session would give Arkansas, for the
first time, a limited form of school vouchers. The bill by
Rep. Jeremy Hutchinson, R-Little Rock, would provide vouchers
for disabled children to attend private schools. Hutchinson
said he filed the legislation to help parents of blind and
deaf students enroll their children at the Arkansas School for
the Blind and the Arkansas School for the Deaf, both of which
are in Little Rock. The bill also would allow parents to send
disabled children to the public school of their choice.
Hutchinson submitted the bill during the pre-filing period
before the legislative session that starts Jan. 13. He said it
is a limited form of school vouchers, a program that doesn't
exist in Arkansas but gives families public money to send
students to private schools. Kellar Noggle, director of the
Arkansas Association of Education Administrators, said his
group has always opposed vouchers, but is not necessarily
against Hutchinson's idea. "With regard to the limited kind of
child that he's talking about, I'm sure we would take a look
at that," Noggle said Wednesday.
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