A voucher program would strengthen, rather than weaken, public education. If parents could choose their children's schools, additional learning opportunities would be stimulated and, as long as certain principles were established, the rights of minority groups and the poor would be safeguarded. Several alternative school programs are described.…

This report discusses national trends in achieving excellence in public education. Although graduation rates have improved greatly since the late 1940s and early 1950s, school restructuring is necessary if the basic skills of the nation's youth are to be improved sufficiently to meet the economic challenges of the 1990s. State governors are…