Rabbi Avi Shafran considers the potential of the president’s new proposed initiative “Pell Grants for Kids.” Current Pell Grants are meant to help low-income students attend postsecondary school; Bush would like to apply the model to younger students, and indeed all students who cannot afford decent education. Expanding this model would be tantamount to creating vouchers that are “more than a ‘next stop’ after a child has been sentenced to wasted years — or worse — in a failing school.”