Vouchsafe Vouchers

Vouchsafe Vouchers

Mona Charen: DC vouchers

Opponents scoff that $7,500 is not sufficient to send a child to private school. Well, it may not pay for Sidwell Friends, St. Alban's or The National Cathedral School, where so many members of Congress send their own children. But $7,500 is more than enough to pay for the average private school in the Washington, D.C., area. A Cato Institute survey found that the average tuition for private elementary schools is $5,000.