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April 11, 2008
Choice Opportunity for Urban Renewal
The Cincinnati Enquirer's Peter Bronson recently reported on a local "mini-population boomlet. While most of the city has been losing families to suburbs that offer more land, newer houses, lower taxes and better schools, this neighborhood is a magnet for young professionals with large, growing families." Why? Because, as one mother put it, the Ohio voucher program provides a true educational option when the neighborhood "failing school barely has an early childhood proficient literacy rate of 50 percent."
It turns out that one antidote to the great sucking sound of families leaving the inner cities in search of the quality of life - and education - the suburbs purport to offer can be (drumroll, please) full school choice. Concludes Bronson, "Ohio saved the vouchers - and now they're saving a proud old neighborhood in Cincinnati."
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