Posted by
Defend America on Tuesday, February 09, 2010 6:28:03 PM
Administration Again Cuts Funding for Scholarship Program That Helps Low-Income D.C. Kids
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
By
Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com)
- In his fiscal 2011 budget, President Barack Obama makes further cuts
in funding for the District of Columbia's Opportunity Scholarship
Program for low-income, mostly minority students.
Obama stopped funding altogether for the OSP in his 2010 fiscal year
budget, but after protests from parents and school choice advocates,
the administration decided to let children already receiving
scholarships continue to do so until they graduate from high school.
In the new
budget,
however, funding for the OSP is slashed by $4 million -- from $13
million to $9 million – $1 million of which is for administrative
costs.
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