{"id":4627,"date":"2009-04-22T05:27:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T10:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2009-04-22T05:27:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T10:27:17","slug":"destroy-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4627","title":{"rendered":"Destroy The Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pat Buchanan on the discontinuation of DC’s education voucher program<\/a>; the Obama Administration is basically starving the program to death.<\/p>\n

As Buchanan notes, there’s a political reason to starve the program out:<\/p>\n

With no living, breathing students profiting from the program to give it a face and stand and defend it the Congress has little political pressure to put new money into the program. The political pressure will be coming exclusively from the teacher\u2019s unions who oppose the vouchers, just as they oppose No Child Left Behind and charter schools and every other effort at reforming public schools that continue to fail the nation\u2019s most vulnerable young people, low income blacks and Hispanics.<\/p>\n

The National Education Association and other teachers\u2019 unions have put millions into Democrats\u2019 congressional campaigns because they oppose Republican efforts to challenge unions on their resistance to school reform and specifically their refusal to support ideas such as performance-based pay for teachers who raise students\u2019 test scores.<\/p>\n

By going along with Secretary Duncan\u2019s plan to hollow out the D.C. voucher program this president, who has spoken so passionately about the importance of education, is playing rank politics with the education of poor children. It is an outrage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But you knew Pat Buchanan, enemy of eduation, would say that, didnt you?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Oh, of course it’s not Buchanan.\u00a0 It’s Juan Williams.<\/p>\n

And this is an issue that Republicans should <\/em>be banging on like a pan lid at a frat party drunken percussion jam.<\/p>\n

Of course, timid of being portrayed as “extremists” by people who call every Republican “extremist” for the crime of running against Democrats, most Republicans acquiesce with the current system, believing there’s something to save.<\/p>\n

There’s really not a lot!<\/p>\n

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Pat Buchanan on the discontinuation of DC’s education voucher program; the Obama Administration is basically starving the program to death. As Buchanan notes, there’s a political reason to starve the program out: With no living, breathing students profiting from the program to give it a face and stand and defend it the Congress has little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}