nydailynews.com - 3/4/2009
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The parents of Harlem have been given the wonderful benefit of school choice - and they're taking full advantage of the ability to select the best educations for their children.
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Congress Letting Kids Fail In Bailoutville
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Recently District 5 sponsored the first ever Harlem Education Fair at which 5,000 parents and kids turned out to see what opportunities for school choice can be employed to improve their children’s education. 50 different schools, traditional as well as charter, competed for parents’ attention and the public money that will follow their children. ...
Congress Letting Kids Fail In Bailoutville
Stop The ACLU —
... Posted on March 4, 2009 -By Warner Todd Huston Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York has been a self-styled education mayor. He’s made all sorts of proposals and tried several different angles — some good some not so good — to improve the education of the kids of New York. He has, though, been a proponent of school choice and this advocacy looks to be a success, at least for the kids of Harlem’s District 5. Recently District 5 sponsored the first ever Harlem Education Fair at which 5,000 parents and kids turned out to see what opportunities for school choice can be employed to ...
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