Nearly 4,000 Indiana students seek private school vouchers

[The Northerner]

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Some 3,778 Indiana students have signed up to receive private school tuition money under a new and controversial state-wide voucher program, with a week to go before a September 16 deadline.

Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett said he was pleased with the turnout in a program that is capped in the first year to 7,500 students, and may include 15,000 next year before caps are later removed.

The most expansive school voucher program in the country was signed into law by Governor Mitch Daniels in May, and allows low and middle-income families to use taxpayer dollars to help send their children to private schools.

Other voucher programs, which are popular among political conservatives, are limited to poor students, those with special needs or those in failing schools.

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1. the Catholic Church says thank you

that child abuse thing was really hurting us but these voucher things are turning things around for us