Halting Arkansas Liberals with Truth
(Glenn Beck story on DC Voucher program)
Max Brantley noted on the Arkansas Times Blog on Thursday, Decemer 16th that “the Milwaukee school voucher program is cheaper than the cost of regular Milwaukee public schools.” This kind of evidence also encouraged the proposals concerning voucher programs throughout the country. However, Brantley is a very sharp critic of both the charter and voucher schools through out the country. Therefore, I want to start a series of articles looking at what the liberals in Arkansas have to say about these schools, and then I will take a look at the evidence out in the real world.
Today I wanted to share an article and video concerning what President Obama did to kill the successful Washington D.C. voucher school program.
“Obama’s Compromise on D.C.’s School Vouchers Program,” (Washington Post, May 10, 2009) was written by Andrew J. Coulson who is the Director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom. Below is that article:
President Obama’s decision isn’t much of a compromise. NEA President Dennis Van Roekel wrote to congressional Democrats demanding that they kill the D.C. voucher program, and they complied. Obama has merely tried to alter the manner of destruction — choosing attrition over summary execution.
During the campaign, Obama said that if vouchers worked he would support them. The Education Department recently revealed that students who joined the voucher program in 2004 are now more than two school years ahead of their public school peers in reading.
In his initial budget, Obama declared that when it comes to education, we cannot waste dollars on programs that are inefficient. Average tuition at the voucher schools is $6,620, while the District is spending $26,555 per pupil this year on K-12 education.
So contrary to his promises, the president has sacrificed a program he knows to be efficient and successful in order to appease the public school employee unions. If he will do this for the NEA, he will do anything.
America finally has an “education president,” and his name is Dennis Van Roekel (current President of the 3.2 million-member National Education Association).
The Daily Hatch 