Posted on 02/22/2006 8:53:00 AM PST by Rakkasan1
It's baaaaaaack. The education establishment and DFL's worst nightmare, meaningful school choice for low-income families, is the menace that haunts bureaucrats and threatens the DFL stranglehold on its constituency of color. And the marquee reads, "This Time It's Back with a Vengeance." A year ago, when state Sen. David Hann, R-Eden Prairie, and state Rep. Mark Buesgens, R-Jordan, introduced Education Access Grant legislation (vouchers for low-income families to use at any accredited private school), few legislators attended the press conference. Last week, as point person for the Republican "Students First" initiative, Buesgens stood flanked and supported by more than a dozen Republican legislators, including House Speaker Steve Sviggum, R-Kenyon. He addressed not just Capitol reporters, but a room jam-packed with private school students, interested parents, movers and shakers from conservative coalitions, and a whole lot of people of color. When David Strom, president of the Taxpayer's League, is laughing and talking strategy with Sondra Samuels, wife of Minneapolis Fifth Ward Council Member Don and an outspoken school-choice supporter, it's clear this "access
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Hmmmm, I wonder if this explains why Education Minnesota has been running so many TV ads in the last month?
you noticed too?
your tax dollars at work.If I won the Powerball , I'd start my own private school.
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