President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have provided school vouchers to low-income students in Washington, D.C. Under the vetoed legislation, the first school voucher initiative ever passed by Congress, about 2,000 students would have received up to $3,200 each in federal funding to use at private or religious schools. Clinton said the bill would undercut public education and provide a “disservice to those children.”
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