Paging the school choice ping list monitor.
Well, here’s evidence that the public education establishment and its supporters were a problem as far back as The Great Depression.
Orthodox Jews have moved into the Lawrence school district in Nassau County, New York, and have gotten their members elected to the school board.
They send their children to religious schools in Brooklyn and force the Lawrence school district to pay for the transportation.
The school taxes in that district are very high and the non-Orthodox are beside themselves as to what to do as the public schools are suffering.
Be careful what you wish for.
I'm surprised that people who do not send their kids to public schools are allowed to vote in School District elections.
There is a typo in the headline. RT+70 is incorrect.
Proof once again that the New York State Constitution is a Marxist-Leninist document!
Well I guess this is payback for the Court of Appeals failure to force homosexual marriage in to the state’s laws.
I Love New York? They’ve changed that advertising campaign recently.
There is no initiative or referendum in New York State and we only get the chance to vote on a Constitutional Convention every twenty years. The last time it was held on a off year and the labor unions jumped on the ballot item and beat it to death. Of course, at that time the gays didn’t have a reason to change the New York State Constitution...now they do, and the labor unions will most likely defer to them because of their influence in the media, finance, and government in this state. Now I bet they’d wish they’d have had the convention. I don’t think the catholic church will now press for a convention. Its a lot easier to simply pass the cost of the bus transportation onto the parents whose children attend parochial school. Besides they’ll probably do it for a lot less cost than the New York City Department of Education or the local school districts. If not, the parochial schools will close and they’ll dump their kids back into the public system where they’ll be a tremendous
When I was a boy, me (and Abe Lincoln!) walked half a mile to the bus stop, rain, snow or shine, and the school bus made one stop to pick up or drop off all the kids in the neighborhood.
Today, the bus stops at every house, and the parents are usually waiting right there, to make sure the kids don't get creamed crossing the street.
And yes, all the kids going to their own religious schools get their own public bus service. Of course, the parents all pay school taxes, whether they use public schools or not. So it's a small enough benefit.