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Voucher Backer: Low-Income Families in Denver Unable to Afford Private Schools.
By Eric Hubler, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 9--Kindergarten classes at Amesse Elementary School, a Denver public school in Montbello, are bigger this year than principal Roberta Alston likes to see: up to 27 kids per room.
Just across Scranton Street, the kindergarten at CHANGE Christian Academy is smaller than principal Evelyn Bryant wants: just five kids.
That's no coincidence, according to philanthropist and school-choice activist Alex Cranberg. Nonpublic schools, private or parochial, that serve low-income families are losing students fast as parents lose their livelihoods, threatening a crowding crisis in public schools, he said.
"We may come out of this recession with a lot of important opportunities for upward mobility no longer present," he said.
The recent announcement from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver that its flagship Holy Family elementary and middle schools will close because of sliding enrollment may herald a wave of school closures, said Cranberg, an energy executive who runs a private scholarship program.
Cranberg said he supports several…
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