61.   Vouchers are not a solution.

62.   Vouchers are payments of tax money to parents who choose to send their children to private or parochial schools.

63.   Vouchers are another possible solution.

64.   Vouchers are hardly a bail-out for them.

65.   Vouchers are on the ballot in Michigan and California.

66.   Vouchers are public subsidies given to children in failing schools to attend private schools.

67.   Worse, more than a third of the students getting vouchers were already enrolled in private or parochial schools.

68.   But these school vouchers are controversial, and Bush does not overtly mention them.

69.   Franks said vouchers were a good idea and he would permit federal funding to be used for them, but said Congress must not create the program.

70.   Kennedy pressed Paige to say private-school vouchers would not be an administration priority.