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Making war on charter schools
Betsy's Page — ... of financial problems in the district or crumbling physical plant, not because of violence, but because somebody judged the kids were going to a lousy school academically, and so ordered the teachers and administrators to find other jobs and the school closed. Statistics need to be compared to something to be informative. Read the rest. Democrats may claim to be huge supporters of education, but there are a few hundred poor families in the District of Columbia who would disagree. David Frum reports on the underhanded way that the Democrats in Congress and the Obama ...

Ignoring Facts in the Name of Science, Screwing Over Children in the Name of the Kids
Hit & Run — ... Congress debated the program, the Education Department released -- on a Friday afternoon, a news cemetery -- a congressionally mandated study showing that, measured by student improvement and parental satisfaction, the District's program works. The department could not suppress the Heritage Foundation's report that 38 percent of members of Congress sent or are sending their children to private schools. It's not just the hypocrisy (though that is massive), and it's not just the cruel gratuitousess (ditto) of the move. It's the steamy, faux-scientific, ...