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Liberals Wage War on 1,700 Poor D.C. Kids
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... The $7,500 scholarships are the best thing that’s happened for District of Columbia students in the past decade — and one of the best investments Congress has made in education reform. Demand for the scholarships is so high that there are four applicants for each voucher, according to the Wall Street Journal. ...

Friday morning links
Maggie's Farm — "I dress for church." Englishman. So do I, most of the time. Don't these bozos realize that trees are grown on tree farms? The opening chord of "Hard Day's Night." It's sort of a "clang," isn't it? Dems seek to kill DC school choice The genetics of male superiority in chess and science. A closer look at the Bombay slums. They are neighborhoods, really. As I recall, "urban renewal" didn't work too well in the US. How ...

Democrats Condemn Kids to Ignorance and Poverty
All articles at Blogcritics — As President Obama's kids are settling in at Sidwell Friends, one of the best private schools in the nation, Congress is preparing to pass a budget which takes away funding from Washington DC's Opportunity Scholarship Program , which makes it possible for 1700 kids a year mostly African-American to escape from the worst public school system in the country and attend a charter school or a private school, thus giving them a chance at a better future. The Opportunity Scholarship Program is only four years old and has barely had a chance to prove itself, but it stands little ...