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Show The Salt Lake Tribune OPINION Thursday, June 3. 1999 Aq Miami Case Creates Cracks in Black Resistance to School Vouchers WASHID TON ~ Animportant crack his opened up inblack America’s once iy penetrable wall of resistance to school yichers ——— rien evubiervetween feeare twocolt has opened o : CLARENCE = ——}__ | | ol lost and most prominentcivi Ossie Dons i]. {on behalf of a voucher plan passed CHICAGO TRIBUNE SERVICE the Florida legislature and awaiting sid’ son. ithhelpingthe man 3 SAE ae ni helping all children get the best ednes effect in September, once the governor hat puts the chapter on the opposite of the National Association for the talk that his chapter has betrayed the race. “Weare not bound by color the way Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest and largest civil rights givap, which has vowedto sue to block the lowest-rated public schools. with 34.000 vouchersper child paid by taxpay. - we used to be bound. Where peoplesaid. ‘You can’t think that waybecauseyou're black,’ Fair says parent ent percent schools, includingreligious president, refuses to knuckle under to ted black. were: fee 1 erparts vouchers by 4.45.3 1 percent to.386 urbd blacks jacks andanc urban Bush plan, which would go into. schools in the state to attend private Jeb Bush's signature. As a college vouchers are poor, Youchers are poor, parents who would take advantase of signs the legislation, would permit stu = responses re whoseson attends fir aie ated, suburbanpubli Li have an mal theory. I think low income dents from 1e of Greater Miami has retained a hing ‘on law firm to intervene in AV closer look at black veals a glaring gap along income lines. Poorer and less educted: black more likely to support vouc | na move that pekes gaping holes in argument that publicly funded school vouchers are aracist plot, the Urban I W Someof us, anyway. Theracial angle is important in the voucher debate, since a disproportionate of the nation’s low-income ers’ money. Voucher supporthas climbed somuch among African-Americans that blacks are now morelikely to support them than their more affent. well margin. while blacks w or other postsecondary vocational edu cation favor ae euchers by S87 Those with high 10 11 David Bositis. the pe tion possible. Teare notonly about the fo school ¢ bic ky kids vho can escape bad schools with vaneh, favored vour errs by 5) percent Da tie Joint Center's search director, attributes the class ve gap fo indications that better educated blacks, like better educated whites, tend whites are , Ina surveytakenlast yearby the Joint Genter for Politicaland Economie Stade) to be more politically moderate and more satisfied with the job their public schools. -anedoing ers, whether publicly or privat ; ed, but also about the kids who ore tett behind after their former chrsnntes are Spi ited away, along with badly needed pavers’ dollars That's why. like many other laxpay about Vouchers as the salvation of Ameriors rs. TE have serious resery iene thy Bush voucherplan. I also puts the Miami Urban League Actually, if it were up to grassroots. rank-and-file African-Americ Fair ies, a black-oriented Washington think k, 48.1 percent of blacks favored the Moderate people have the most mis givings about vouchers. which they ser complex educational need TL would rather see Americans return ch pter on the opposite side of its own national organization and its respected apparently would find mor: friends than foes. use ofstate moneyfor private-school tu ition vouchers, while 39.8. pe op 4S 7-vadieal solution.” he says. “People who are happy with their schools see to their ancient commitment to quality education for everyone, not met the mest president, HughPrice, longtime voucher opponents. !. Willard Fair, the Miami chapter's f In fact, surv how that the more we African-Americans learn about vouch: ers, the better we scemto like them. posed it. 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