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D.C. School Vouchers Outnumber Applicants
The D.C. voucher program did not receive enough applicants from public schools to fill all the slots available, and some of the children who will receive the federally funded tuition grants already attend private school, officials said yesterday.
Huge demand for school vouchers in capital city
WASHINGTON (AP) — Demand for access to the nation's first federally funded school voucher program has proved overwhelming in the nation's capital, due in large part to parental frustration with its troubled public education system.
Both of the stories above were filed on 6/11/04.