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Obama on Education: Not What Ruby Expected
By Caleb Howe - Politics DailyAs Pejman Yousefzadeh succinctly points out, the Obama administration "is doing immense damage to the educational environment in D.C." through their botched handling of the school voucher issue. The President sends his children to a prestigious private school which, through his Administration's callousness, will soon see the exile of voucher students; disadvantaged students who will be shuffled off to the public school system. I guess you could could say Obama thinks they should be with their own kind. It goes without saying that if a Republican were kicking poor kids out of his own children's ...
D.C. School Voucher Program Jeopardized by Spending Bill
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyDemocrats have included a provision in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill currently winding its way through Congress that would end the D.C. Opportunity Scholarships program. The program provides $7,500 vouchers to some 1,700 low-income families in the nation's capital that can be used to help pay the cost of tuition at private schools. The program allows thousands of D.C. kids the chance to escape the District's crowded, unsafe, and underperforming school system for a quality education. If the bill passes in its current form, those vouchers will dry up, leaving many of the recipients with ...
Utah Vouchers Go Down in Flames
By Dave - Politics DailyVoucher Proponents must face reality. School vouchers are not selling to the American public. The latest example is Utah, the reddest of red states, where a comprehensive, although limited voucher program went down by 2-1. I'm in general support of the concept. In the university system, which has a mix of public and private institutions, has broad public support and government underwrites much of the tuition at both. I see no reason why the same could not be true at lower educational levels. ...
Don't Forget to Vote
By Dave - Politics DailyToday is the first Tuesday in November, and as such in many parts of the country, including mine, today is an election day. Here are the elections I'll be watching tonight. Kentucky Governor: Republican sitting governor Ernie Fletcher vs. Democratic Challenger Steve Beshear. Governor Fletcher was indicted last spring and is under a huge cloud of thunderstorm like proportions for ethics challenges. Things look good for a Democratic pickup in a very red state. ...
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