Republicans Unveil School Voucher Plan

Breitbart.com ^ | 18 July 2006 | BEN FELLER

[ChessExpert]

Congressional Republicans on Tuesday proposed a $100 million plan to let poor children leave struggling schools ...

[Clintonfatigued]

It's a step in the right direction.

[PajamaTruthMafia]

What the heck took so long?

[GianniV]

Racist!

[Blackirish]

What the heck took so long?

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They ran out of pork barrel projects.

[TXBubba]

to let poor children leave struggling schools ...

If taxes keep going up that will eventually apply to all children.

[uptoolate]

"Parents could get $4,000 per year to put toward private-school tuition or a public school outside their local district. They could also seek up to $3,000 per year for extra tutoring."

Supporters say poor parents deserve choices, like rich families have. When schools don't work, said Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, "parents must have other opportunities."

We make 74k a year, homeschool 3 kids, pay appx. 3k per year for materials for all 3 kids, and yet somehow I feel like I've been discriminated against.

Do you think we'll qualify as "poor parents"?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Typical Republicans.

Instead of going to the source (Killing the Dept of Education and giving control back to local communities) they have to come up with another big-government "conservative" program.

Vouchers are nothing but trojan horses.

[LuxMaker]

What the heck took so long?

Well we had to get through 8 years of Klinton first.

[Shermy]

"Vouchers are nothing but trojan horses."

Yjr Scientologists will be at the trough lickety-split.

[Republicanprofessor]

I'm still spaced from our never-ending trip, so I'll let you do the pinging.

[CottonBall]

Under the new legislation, the vouchers would mainly go to students in poor schools that have failed to meet their progress goals for at least five straight years.

At first, I thought this was great - but not if it's only for the 'poor'. Once the definition of that gets established, it will benefit very few. And the reason many schools are failing is that the parents don't care. I'll bet most won't use the vouchers and/or still won't monitor their children's schoolwork.

Vouchers for everyone would be much better.

[FlashBack]

But what's it going to look like after Teddy K and the boys get ahold of it?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Vouchers for everyone would be much better.

Vouchers + tax dollars = Still Federal Control

Cut the taxes and spending, parents will have money to send their kids to any school they wish, competition among schools will drive down prices, and kids will get a better education without government and liberal meddling.

[uptoolate]

Yes!!!! As long as the money goes to the government, where somehow they change the name of it from 'my money' to 'their money', they will always be able to tell you how and on what you can spend what use to be called 'your money'.

[pissant]

Damn, Bush has been calling for this since he got into office. Get a move on it already.

[Element187]

Vouchers are nothing but trojan horses.

sorry your living in a dream world .. government education will always be here and teachers unions are making sure of that... school vouchers is not the end all be all to solving our nations education problem, but its a good start to try and correct the mistakes... the vouchers create competition among schools, thus raising the quality of education.... if free enterprise has taught us anything, competition is the only way to achieve greatness.

[speekinout]

The legislation would cover all students in *poor schools*, not just *poor people*. Although it is too often true that poor schools are in poor neighborhoods.

Getting kids out of poor schools, no matter what their economic class is, should be our first priority.

[Old Landmarks]

But if the Government (public) Schools no longer had a monopoly, they would not be able to kick God out and indoctrinate other people's children into immorality and socialism. The judge created secular humanist monopoly would end and secular humanism and liberalism would suffer.