Democrats say that the program is not effective, but you probably won’t be hearing that from the families who’s children take advantage of the opportunity to select the school they attend.
I would like to see a performance comparison between the public school system in DC and the schools chosen by the parents of these kids…
“…money would be better spent on the public school system.” ??? The operative word here is ‘spent’. We ‘spend’ tax dollars on the unnatural disaster that is the public school system. We ‘invest’ in these vouchers.
When government spends our money, we can expect it to go directly into a black hole somewhere. When we invest our money, we expect to see a positive return.
Maybe that’s the difference between liberal and conservative thinking? Liberals spend while conservatives invest..
The House signed off Wednesday on reviving a school voucher program for low-income students in the District of Columbia.
The experimental program is close to House Speaker John Boehner’s heart, since he hammered out an agreement with Democrats to pass it eight years ago. In 2009, however, Democrats allowed the program’s funding to lapse. Students who were already getting vouchers continue to receive them, but new students couldn’t apply.
While some Democrats, like former Washington, D.C. mayors Anthony Williams and Marion Barry, as well as Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Vt.), say the program is effective, most argue the money would be better spent on the public school system.
