For the past four years, the Washington Scholarship Fund, a non-profit organization founded by two former Department of Education staffers, has provided scholarships for low-income D.C. students. Currently, the WSF pays between 30 and 60 percent of private-school tuition for 460 students. Now, thanks to a $ 6 million gift from Ted Forstmann and John Walton ($ 3 mil' each), the WSF will be able to provide scholarships to an additional 1,000 children a year. The Forstmann-Walton gift makes the WSF the second largest program of its kind in the country, topped only by the Bradley Foundation's PAVE program in Milwaukee.