1.   Advocates say that vouchers give poor children opportunities akin to the affluent and will make weak schools improve in order to survive.

2.   Proponents said that vouchers give poor parents the chance to send their children to a better school than they would otherwise be able to afford.

3.   The vouchers would give day-care providers more alternatives than now exist to take advanced training rather than repeating the basics over and over.

4.   The vouchers merely gave them a subsidy at the expense of public schools.

5.   They say vouchers give all families choices that only wealthy families have now.

6.   Vouchers might give Giuliani another badge to wear on the national stage, but at an unacceptable cost if the city loses Crew in the process.

7.   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.

8.   Supporters of the Ohio program argue that vouchers give low-income parents an alternative to local public schools.

9.   Tuition vouchers would give low-income families the same choice as better-off families, and instill competition among schools to promote excellence in education.