anne-marie lemieux
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Douglas County school board ends controversial voucher program
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The Douglas County school board Monday put to bed the district’s controversial Choice Scholarship program, ending a six-year battle to set up the nation’s only district-approved voucher program. The vote to end the voucher program, and the legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, was unanimous: six to nothing. One…
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DougCo school board likely to move quickly on voucher repeal
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The clock is ticking for a decision by the Douglas County School District Board of Education on its controversial voucher program. The election earlier this month of four anti-voucher candidates reshaped the board from 4-3 in favor of vouchers to 7-0 against, means that the voucher program is all but certain to be trash-canned –…
