COUNTYWIDE : Group to Promote School Vouchers
A Ventura County branch of the statewide Parents for Educational Choice has been formed to help put an initiative on the 1992 statewide ballot that would create a voucher system for California’s public and private schools.
Under the system, parents would receive a voucher that would allow them to send their child to the public or private school of their choice. Schools would be paid based on the number of students enrolled.
The Ventura County branch will begin collecting signatures next month in an effort to help put the initiative on the November, 1992, ballot, said branch leader Robert L. Plunkett, a Simi Valley attorney.
The group hopes to collect 30,000 signatures by May and to raise $10,000 that would be used for printing and postage, he said.
Parents for Educational Choice, a state-registered political action committee, needs more than 615,000 signatures statewide for the initiative to qualify for the ballot.
President Bush has extolled the voucher system as a way to solve the problems of the nation’s public school system. But opponents argue that it would attract more students to schools in wealthy neighborhoods, while schools in poor areas would suffer.
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