11.   The bill would allow the District to issue taxpayer-funded tuition vouchers that low-income students could use to attend private and religious schools.

12.   There is certainly a receptive audience for tuition vouchers, with free market-oriented economists in the forefront.

13.   As a Republican candidate for president, George W. Bush wants taxpayer-funded tuition vouchers to give some parents the option of sending their children to private school.

14.   As governor, Bush failed to convince the Texas Legislature to support even a pilot program of tuition vouchers.

15.   Far from settling anything, the rejected appeals are likely to fan the national debate over tuition vouchers and other financial help.

16.   Fights over tuition vouchers have been waged in many state legislatures, and in the courts of Arizona, Maine, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Vermont.

17.   Fights over tuition vouchers also have been waged in many state legislatures, and in the courts of Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Vermont.

18.   He has won limited changes in education, seeing charter schools and academic standards approved but failing to gain legislative support for tuition vouchers.

19.   Last year, it allowed Maine to continue subsidizing children who attend some private schools while denying such tuition vouchers for those who go to religious schools.

20.   Politically charged legal fights over tuition vouchers are being waged in numerous lower courts.