Supreme Court gives go-ahead for school vouchers!

Associated Press / SFGate

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

This is not a surprising decision. The court has been gradually moving toward a position that allows state funds to go toward programs that may indirectly benefit religious institutions. I do not think this is a majority that would necessarily translate into an overturning of the pledge decision.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Yep, there's always at least on Freeper who can recognize that the glass is 1/10th empty.

[Reagan Man]

>>>Supreme Court gives go-ahead for school vouchers.

A victory for America's families and for conservatism.

[Wolfie]

Do you mean people who chose to send their kids to non-government schools before didn't have to pay taxes to the government schools?

That would be even better. Cut out the middle-man. If you don't have a kid in public school, you don't pay school taxes. None of this bureaucratic nonsense.

[ArcLight]

I'm a black man who has a pleasant, middle-class career doing work I love. But it had nothing much to do with any nonsense about "pulling myself up by my bootstraps." Others gave me a boost. Especially my parents, migrants from the rural south who never even finished grade school. They begged, borrowed and stole to send me and my siblings to Catholic schools. As a result, I learned how to read, write, count and think.

I lucked out in being born to a couple of unusually determined parents. But every poor kid in America deserves the kind of chance I got. School vouchers could offer this sort of opportunity to millions of kids; a chance to escape dismal public schools, get a decent education, and then step out into the wider world.

And that's why today's Supreme Court ruling on school vouchers is perhaps the greatest, most liberating court ruling for black people in the past quarter century. If we can just get states and municipalities to follow up on it, it could be as big as Brown v. Board of Education in its potential to liberate black Americans.

It is for us to follow up, and demand that voucher programs actually be launched in school systems around the country. The fact that these programs can no longer be pre-emptively declared "unconstitutional" means that merely launching a voucher campaign will strike terror into the hearts of the education bureaucrats, forcing them to finally launch meaningful reforms. Thus even areas without vouchers will benefit from them.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Amazing how it just kills some on the right to actually see conservatism win a victory.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

This probably means that there would be no real chanllenge to Bush's fiath based initiative.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Ummm, freedom and choice also allow people to engage in leftist thought, speech and actions as conservatives. I think the gains are worth the risk.

[toenail]

"I would think this would make the environment for education more competitive, and thus force public schools to get better to keep their students. Thoughts?"

http://www.sepschool.org/misc/vouchers.html

[Temple Owl]

That said, I've always thought that what the government funds, they will eventually control. As much as I like to see the liberals have a cow, I'm not a voucher supporter for that reason.

The failing public schools are financed by government funds. It is the private schools where vouchers are presently used that have shown to be successful.

School taxes in the Philadelphia area have reached staggering heights. Homeowners are losing their homes v ia sheriff sales. We can educate our kids far better and cheaper using a voucher system.

[Bill Davis FR]

best news in days

[Hacksaw]

Yep, there's always at least on Freeper who can recognize that the glass is 1/10th empty.

????? Please elaborate.

[windcliff]

Didn't you have the hots for the teacher of Ding-Dong School?

[justshutupandtakeit]

That may be but we should not forget this is only a small victory easily turned against the Right.

[E Rocc]

The court endorsed a 6-year-old pilot program in inner-city Cleveland that provides parents a tax-supported education stipend. Parents may use the money to opt out of one of the worst-rated public schools in the nation.

The program was carefully written by both Republicans and Democrats (Fanny Lewis, perhaps the most lefty member of Cleveland City Council, is a huge supporter)to pass Constitutional muster. Parents who qualify can use the money to go to any certified school, religious or not.

-Eric

[truthkeeper]

The Big 5 come through for us. What welcome news!

[steveegg]

Finally, some judicial sense (though why does it always seem that sense comes in the form of 5-4?).

[rwfromkansas]

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET THIS FONT AS BIG AS I FEEL....BUT LET'S JUST SAY, I AM EXTREMELY EXTREMELY EXTREMELY PLEASED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LisaFab]

Take back the Senate to other GOP appointed justices like Souter and Stevens?

Even Babe Ruth only batted .340! I realize the judge that wrote this opinion was appointed by Nixon, 14 out of the 21 judges on the Ninth Circuit were appointed by Carter and Clinton. And they are by far the most-often overturned and liberal judges in the country.

[mwl1]

I apologize as my comment was misinterpreted. I believe that you are not only correct, but that you should point out this bias to the organizations that are spawning it.