April 15 (Bloomberg) -- A new law cutting off taxpayer- funded private education for poor children in Washington is shutting five-year-old Marquis Greene out of a school where his sisters have thrived.
It’s also providing a challenge to President Barack Obama’s education policies that’s as close to home as his daughters’ classrooms.
A spending law signed by Obama last month will end a program that gives low-income parents tuition vouchers of as much as $7,500 a year to send their children to private schools. Among 54 participating schools are Sidwell Friends, where Sasha and Malia Obama are students, and Ambassador Baptist Church Christian School, where Sherrise Greene sends her two daughters and had wanted to enroll Marquis.
“I had high hopes that he would be attending with a scholarship with his sisters,” Greene said in an interview. “I’m just really hurt that it’s being ended, because I think it’s a good program.”
Greene, who likened participation in the voucher program to “winning the Powerball,” learned this month that Marquis can’t receive similar help. The program is scheduled to end after the coming school year, and Arne Duncan, Obama’s education secretary, decided not to let new students join
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