What’s Not To Love?
By Mitch Berg
School choice in all its various forms – charter schools, open enrollment, vouchers in their various forms (scholarships, tax deductions and vouchers themselves) and easy access to homeschooling – have been a boon to millions of kids, not only improving the education the vast majority of them get, but doing it at inevitably less cost to the taxpayer.
So of course, the Dem majority in Congress (like that in Saint Paul) needs to destroy it, for the benefit of the Educational-Industrial Complex that so many of them serve.
Kathryn Jean Lopez on the Obama Administratin’s push to scupper the DC Opportunity program.
The program’s a success, increasing achievement scores. More importantly, it’s improvements are persistent:
Unlike other programs under which students backslide when they switch schools, some children enrolled in D.C. Opportunity have improved, according to the Department of Education’s own evaluation, which reports that “achievement trends are moving in the right direction.”
Most importantly, it gives parents an option – a way out of DC’s school system, which is both the most expensive in the nation per-capita, and the most blighted; I was amazed to read that one in eight DC school students report having been attacked or threatened with a weapon in the previous year.
Yeah – gotta get rid of all that and get the kids back in the public system!
May 26th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
By killing that program, two students that were in the private school with the Obama daughters had to be pulled out and sent to public school.
Once again we have a lefty exempting themselves from what they expect everyone else to do.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Sometimes teachers complain about these things (school choice in all its various forms …) while at the same time taking full advantage of them. I can’t name names without compromising my personal safety, but I know one of them. 🙂