Re: DC Opportunity Scholarships

Hope-and-change beat NR to the punch this time, although the analysis here is much better than mine.

Money quote:

If you have any doubt as to whether this program should exist, ask yourself a simple question: Would you enroll your children in violence-ridden D.C. public schools with decades-long records of academic failure? Bill and Hillary Clinton didn’t. Barack and Michelle Obama didn’t. Members of Congress don’t.

What about you? Would you enroll your children in those schools?

The DC Opportunity Scholarships issue provides a perfect test of the President's "I'm a pragmatist, not an ideologue" line that so many of his supporters believe. Those supporters should take a close look at this issue and ask themselves if the President and his administration are behaving pragmatically or ideologically.

DC Opportunity Scholarships

A new study shows that kids in the program are now performing *better* academically than their public school counterparts. Of course, this study conveniently comes out just after the President kills the program. Perhaps the President can explain why his daughters deserve to attend Sidwell Friends but Deborah Parker's children do not.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123897492702491091.html

Obama promised that he was a pragmatist who would make decisions based on "what works", not on the "childish" political arguments of the past. Well, the DC voucher program works...