Bush administration funds voucher front group. (In The Capital).

The Bush administration has announced a partnership with the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO BAEO Black Alliance for Educational Options ), a group that advocates for religious school vouchers school vouchers, government grants aimed at improving education for the children of low-income families by providing school tuition that can be used at public or private schools. , to promote the president's education policies.

On Oct. 15, Department of Education Undersecretary Gene Hickok said the BAEO would receive a $600,000 grant to develop "an intense public information campaign" to inform parents about "choices" available under the Bush education plan passed by Congress in 2001.

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3. a press statement released by the agency, BAEO will use the taxpayer money to launch a "full-scale media campaign" that will "use direct mail, television, radio, newspapers, the Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and door-to-door visits."

The BAEO, formed in 2000, claims to be a grassroots advocacy group aimed at providing options for African-American families. Research has shown, however, that the organization's support comes from wealthy right-wing foundations that oppose church-state separation, including the Bradley Foundation The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a large foundation with about half a billion US dollars in assets. According to the Bradley Foundation 1998 Annual Report, it gives away more than $30 million per year. and the Walton Foundation.

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Title Annotation:	Black Alliance for Educational Options; George W. Bush
Publication:	Church & State
Article Type:	Brief Article
Geographic Code:	1USA
Date:	Dec 1, 2002
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