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State senators push state bill on school choice
By Brad Bumsted
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
HARRISBURG — A coalition of conservative Republicans and Philadelphia Democrats on Tuesday urged lawmakers to pass school choice legislation, as two senators introduced the chamber's first bill of the session before a crowd of several hundred children and parents at the state Capitol.
The effort by Sen. Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin County, and Sen. Anthony Williams, D-Philadelphia, represents the best chance in recent history to enact a law that would enable parents to use state subsidies from public schools as tuition vouchers at private or parochial schools, said Christopher Borick, a political science professor at Muhlenberg College in Allentown.....
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