WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says the
federal government paid for more than 1,700 D.C. students to attend private
schools but doesn't know what schools more than a fifth of them attended.
The Illinois Democrat made the accusation about
the $12 million voucher program at a subcommittee hearing Wednesday.
The group that oversees the D.C. voucher program
declined to give Durbin enrollment information, so he asked the 49
participating private schools how many voucher students they each had last
year.
All but five schools responded, but the numbers
added up to only 1,334 students.
Gregory M. Cork, president and chief executive
of the Washington Scholarship Fund, says he will give Durbin enrollment data and
try to resolve the discrepancies in the numbers.
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