President Barack Obama includes millions of dollars in next year’s budget to ensure that more than 1,700 D.C. children currently attending private schools with the help of federally funded vouchers can remain until they graduate, The Examiner has learned.

Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget proposal contains $12.2 million to maintain private school vouchers for the 2010-2011 school year. The president believes the program should be funded until the children who are already enrolled finish school, sources said, but no new students will be allowed to participate.