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Reforming One Bad School . Fried catfish is the choice du jour on Fridays . " In a 1992 Supreme Court case , Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council , a developer who owned two expensive beachfront lots was awarded compensation when the state prevented him from building on the site . America program begun this school year offers a full tuition scholarship to all students K through 12 in the Edgewood Independent School District , where 93 percent of the 14,100 students come from low-income families . In Milwaukee , Wis ., public schools responded to school choice by developing more childhood education programs , expanding before - and after-school programs , increasing the number of public charter schools and improving students ' access to health care . The Giffen Memorial Elementary School , with a large number of children from low-income families , was academically the worst school in Albany when New York philanthropist Virginia Gilder offered any student there a private school scholarship paying up to 90 percent of private school tuition for a minimum of three and a maximum of six years . " School choice is simply about one thing : parental choice , " he wrote . Public School Failure . When state governments were awarding bounties for killing birds of prey , a concerned citizen helped found the private Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in eastern Pennsylvania to prevent the slaughter of thousands of hawks , falcons , ospreys , eagles , owls and other endangered birds .