Get ready to rumble (Voucher Alert)

washington post ^ | February 17, 2003 | Deborah Simmons

[anncoulteriscool]

Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's congressional representative, has marked a line in the sand. Not in the Middle East, mind you, homeland of terror masterminds, but on her home turf here in Washington. Mrs. Norton is ready to do battle with Jeff Flake, who this week introduced legislation that would give scholarships to poor children. Of course, Mrs. Norton doesn't call them scholarships. She and her kind call them vouchers.

[anncoulteriscool]

Needless to say I think this would greatly improve schools in DC..and everywhere else for that matter.

[day10]

Competition is about the only thing that can improve the sorry public schools of today. Competition will, and is, slowly working it's way in. Here is an excellent example from a company led by Bill Bennett:

K12 Charter Schools

[Search4Truth]

Get ready to rumble indeed. This strikes at the heart of the Liberal indoctrination machine. They will fight it tooth-and-nail.

[harpseal]

Mrs. Norton should read the US Constitution then shut her mouth about the rights of DC government

[FreeTally]

Mr. Flake "should learn that D.C. is an independent jurisdiction...and Congress has no more right to interfere with District education than they do with any other jurisdiction," Mrs. Norton said the other day.

Glad to see that Mrs. Norton is against every act the federal government has made regarding education in the 50 states./sarcasm

[mhking]

More proof that the left truly cares more for the contracts of tenured, substandard teachers than it does for competitive educational advancement for our children...

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[Dog Gone]

Your link says Washington Post, but this is a Washington Times article.

[ladylib]

Don't forget Hillary Clinton whose daughter went to Sidwell Friends. She was totally against vouchers. She feels that parents are too stupid to decide on a school for their children, unless of course, it's a public school.

And don't forget the old has been Al Gore, whose kid was kicked out of the best private schools in Washington, DC.

Al Gore grudgingly admitted on TV (and it was like pulling teeth to get him to reply to the question "Even if it would help children?") that he opposed vouchers.

[valkyrieanne]

Wonder if the Washington Times will be as sanguine about vouchers when Saudi-financed & backed "jihadi academies" line up for voucher money as well?

[anncoulteriscool]

****Your link says Washington Post, but this is a Washington Times article.*****

MY bad, sorry.

[stand watie]

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