On the recordMarch 2, 2000
The demographics in parochial schools and private schools--and we studied this very closely--are within 10 percent, the same as demographics in public schools. Parochial schools, for example, in New York, have identical demographics as the public schools. Sixty percent in parochial schools make $50,000 or less. The idea that people in these parochial or private schools are somehow a class of wealth is, I believe, not correct and cannot be substantiated, No. 1. No. 2, 70 percent of the families who use this education savings account are going to be in public schools; 30 percent in private. The funds the Senator from Rhode Island describes are pretty much evenly divided. I suspect because people in private schools are still paying local property taxes for public schools, they have a higher hurdle, and it does make them save more.
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