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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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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Recently, I was driving through a Chicago neighborhood and I found this: Stay on track…No school.
This is an example of why Chicago has a drop out problem.
What makes this worse is that parents are stuck with this type of shitty public school, Hay Elementary Community Academy.
Hay Elementary students’ can’t read or write [...]
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Posted in Sweet on Apr 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
The Georgia state Senate just passed a voucher bill, already approved by the House. The bill now goes to Republican Governor Sonny Perdue.
Does anyone know when the Governor may take a look at it? And what the chances are? Is it more likely that he’ll sign it or pull a feisty Puerto [...]
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Posted in Sweet on Mar 13th, 2008 4 Comments »
The world is abuzz about the resignation of New York governor Eliot Spitzer. We have all been told that the new governor (as of next Monday), David Paterson, is African-American as well as blind.
The New York Times’s editorial board gives us an indication of his character when it writes that Paterson “is riding [...]
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