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They would erect barriers to those who seek to obtain private benefits at others ' expense . ( Merit pay and pay for special skills raise the overall average to 6 percent higher . " Environmentalist " is the term used to describe people who have a special appreciation for the natural world , who see nature not merely as a means of gratifying human wants but as a valuable end in itself . Charter school teachers are reviewed every year , and their jobs are not guaranteed from year to year unless they perform well ( as measured by student learning advancement ) . It 's the kind of place designed to be a neighborhood gathering spot as soon as developers finish building all those nearby neighborhoods . Students in areas with many low-cost private school choices score higher on national tests than those in areas with less competition . The fund , which provided 460 scholarships in the 1997-98 school year , added another 1,000 elementary school scholar ships for the 1998-99 school year . Yet every voucher program has a waiting list . If this regulation allowed one person to live another 20 years , the implicit " cost " of saving that life would be about $ 2 trillion - one-third of the annual gross national product . " In a recent letter to the Wall Street Journal , Schundler pointed out that military veterans have used the government-funded GI Bill to attend any college , religious or secular , and that federal Stafford loans and Pell grants can be used at both religious and secular institutions of higher learning . HOT AND COLD : Five Forks serves up several sandwiches , soups and a daily hot special for lunch . The privately funded vouchers are intended to make school choice possible for many low-income parents whose children would otherwise be trapped in inner-city schools that are academically inferior , physically dangerous or both . The rainbow maki comes with smoked salmon , tuna , shrimp and avocado , and a couple of pieces were topped with a fish that we could n't identify , so we avoided those . The roasted pork loin lunch special is well-seasoned , although a little dry , served with parsley potatoes roasted just until the skins were crispy , basic green beans ( that taste canned ) and a fluffy biscuit . Both proponents and opponents of tax-funded vouchers recognize that a victory for vouchers in the District of Columbia would be an incentive for their spread elsewhere in the country . A similar measure proposed by Sen. Defines qualified expenses for which the funds can be used to include tuition , fees , tutoring , special needs services , books , supplies , computer equipment ( included related software and services ) and other equipment , transportation and supplementary expenses . For those who like more contemporary , wild-style combos , there 's an imaginative selection of rolls : the Mexican mixes double shrimp , avocado , cilantro and spicy sauce ; the Russian has crab , mayo and fish eggs topped with eel ; and the Georgia puts together eel , avocado and baked egg . Fertilizer and pesticide runoff from farmlands contribute to destructive algal blooms and the 7,000 - square-mile dead zone that appears every summer in the Gulf of Mexico off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas . The program does not disburse aid directly to private schools , and both public and private schools - whether religious or nonreligious - are eligible to participate . The Cleveland voucher program allows families who could not otherwise afford to exercise choice ( e.g ., by moving to another district , enrolling in private schools , undertaking home schooling ) to decide what constitutes an appropriate education for their children . It would also have provided another 2,000 public school students from low-income families with $ 500 each for after-school tutoring assistance . The aisles are lined with organic and non-organic items , gourmet coffees and teas , and local produce brought in every day . In another study , Cecilia Rouse of Princeton University found that math scores of voucher students increased 1.5 percent to 2 percent each year over what they would have attained in public schools , with the improvement coming every year , compounding the effect . Or , the government could pay bounties to people for every breeding pair of endangered species found to inhabit their property for all or part ( in the case of migratory species ) of the year . Despite the dismal record of public schools in both Milwaukee and Cleveland , teachers ' unions and their allies have attacked the voucher program as harmful to the public schools .