From the AP:
The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that two voucher programs for foster and disabled children attending private schools can continue through the 2008-2009 school year.
The court issued its ruling Friday - the same day state lawmakers approved legislation cutting the $3.2 million set aside to fund the program.
This is sabotage!
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Currently, there is a salary dispute between the United Teachers of Dade and the school board. Today, teachers were supposed to receive salary raises but the money hasn’t come from the State due to budget restrictions.
So, today union members protested and brought in the United Way to help send a message to school board members.
The [...]
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What you are about to read, will make you want to barf:
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - School boards in some New Jersey towns still give perks to their superintendents that would make almost any employee envious and any taxpayer mad.
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Since word got out in May that Barbara Trzeszkowski, the school superintendent in tiny Keansburg, was retiring [...]
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I called it back in Feb., Obama will never be “open to the idea” of school vouchers. He needs teachers vote and unions campaign contributions.
Well, now he has plans to join Congresswoman Holmes (D-DC) to kill the DC voucher program.
How could both of them, whom are black, deny black and brown families in struggling public [...]
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After you read this, you will want to barf on a liberal.
The state’s largest school employee union hired a Washington, D.C., consulting firm to craft a public relations strategy for limiting the expansion of charter schools in Delaware.
The firm represents some of the most extremist statist groups: Open Society Institute, National League of Cities, and [...]
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Last year, the teachers sued the state saying the voucher law passed in 2006 was unconstitutional because public money can’t go to private schools.
The lower court said, parents win, unions - you lose.
Then, last month the court of appeals overruled the lower court decision.
Now, parents of foster and special education kids are asking the state [...]
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Last night on World News Tonight, Barack Obama essentially said that school choice is a bad thing.
What is school choice?
A parent’s right to choose the best school for their kids, whether it be public or private.
Simple enough.
So, what’s his hang up?
Read the transcript below:
TAPPER: You talked about the need to change the status quo in [...]
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The Wall Street Journal has a fantastic article responding to Democrats hatred towards parents.
Parents ability to escape terrible DC public schools.
Parents ability to access a scholarship program that helps them pay for a private education, when a public one is failing and the government can’t seem to provide any other viable options.
Screw unions. Screw democrats.
Down [...]
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