Rep . Ron Wilson, D-Houston long was the sole African American lawmaker supporting vouchers.
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Nick Clegg denies supporting voucher systems, and has gone on record as ruling such systems out.
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But so far, she said, the group hardly compares in clout and financial resources to the forces supporting vouchers.
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That's also why Angie Garcia and her group of Hispanic parents, San Antonio Parents for School Choice, are supporting vouchers and targeting South Texas lawmakers to win support.
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AAE and state affiliates have responded by highlighting that over 90 % of their membership are public school teachers and the AAE has never taken a position supporting vouchers.
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Noreen Connell, an organizer of the group and executive director of the Educational Priorities Panel, a nonprofit organization that monitors school spending, said the campaign was trying to provide a counterweight to the well-organized foundations supporting vouchers.
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Both a measure supporting vouchers and one to lower the two-thirds vote requirement for local school bonds are failing to gain support from a majority of voters, a poll released by the Public Policy Institute of California says.
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Leininger is the San Antonio physician who made millions developing hospital beds and whose interests last year pumped millions of dollars to candidates supporting vouchers, including a $ 1 million loan to Perry for crucial ads in the closing days of his neck-and-neck race with Democrat John Sharp.
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From the recent Supreme Court decision supporting vouchers for religious schools to a lower court objection to the phrase " one nation under God " in the pledge of allegiance to wrangling over cloning, stem-cell research, euthanasia and genetic engineering, religion has been re-entering the public arena in complex and unforeseen ways.
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RELIGION-PUBLIC-ISSUES ( Undated ) _ From the recent Supreme Court decision supporting vouchers for religious schools to a lower court objection to the phrase " one nation under God " in the pledge of allegiance, to the wrangling over cloning, stem cell research, euthanasia and genetic engineering, religion has been re-entering the public arena in complex and unforeseen ways.