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Opponents of the first-in-the-nation plan--which subsidizes private or parochial school tuition for kids in "failing" public schools who choose to transfer--contend that it violates church-state boundaries.
Smiley's question on the primaries provoked both candidates into utterly unconvincing defenses of Iowa and New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation status.