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http://townhall.com/columnists/terryjeffrey
/2012/02/22/creators_oped/page/2

Department of Education: Catholic Schools Beat Public Schools
Feb 22, 2012

excerpt:
But, unfortunately, if we did this in today's America -- where the president believes he can order Catholics and Catholic institutions to act against their faith -- people in government would surely use a voucher program as a political weapon to sap the spirit from religious schools and turn them into dismal facsimiles of the failed public schools that the voucher-bearing parents and their children have fled.