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REASON TV: Barack Obama and the DC School Voucher Program.
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REASON TV: Barack Obama and the DC School Voucher Program.
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Disgrace: Reason TV on how Obama killed the D.C. vouchers program
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Disgrace: Reason TV on how Obama killed the D.C. vouchers program posted at 7:40 pm on May 4, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Superb stuff, worth forwarding to every conservative (and non-conservative) you know. If Bush had spiked this program, the media would have seen to it that every last kid in this video was nationally famous. As it is, aside from Juan Williams and a few select others, there’s been nary a peep. Someday, many years from now, when the GOP once again figures out how to do oppo research, they’ll be turning out videos like this and rubbing the Democrats’ faces in them instead of ...
Obama’s Shame: The DC Voucher Program
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I strongly advise you to forward this video to everyone you know. The Obama administration hung a lot of DC schoolchildren out to dry for no other reason than to satisfy the demands of their well-connected campaign contributors. The program, which was very successful, would have cost $18 million. You can’t tell me, amid the pork and vote-buying bribes stuffed into the President’s $3.6 trillion budget that there wasn’t room for it. That is a travesty and he and the Democrats who backed him should pay for it. I definitely agree with Allah here . Someday, many years from now, when the GOP once again figures out how to do oppo research, they’ll be ...
How Obama Killed The DC Voucher Program
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I love it when good stories are told. And often times, it's good storytelling that makes for persuasive politics. Here's the story of Mercedes Campbell, one of the 1,700 students in the Washington, DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, otherwise known as the school voucher program passed by Congress in 2004. The video was produced by Nick Gillespie and Dan Hayes of Reason.tv.
We all know the why vouchers are good, and we all know the arguments for school choice. Yet, "voucher" seems to be one of the only words coming out of the Right when it comes to education policy. ...
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Suckers! Be sure to watch this until the end... Um, what did you think was gonna happen? Elections have consequences, apparently. Oops. But it sure was "historic" and all that. I'm sorry that the people involved here got fooled, and this is a disgrace, but, well, you might just have to live with it. I mean, someone paid the piper (the teachers' unions, here) and the piper damn sure got to pick the tune. Buyer's remorse sure is a fucking bitch, huh? ( h/t ...
Barack Obama & the DC School Voucher Program
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Obama: school choice is great, for my family, but not yours
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Obama: school choice is great, for my family, but not yours I don’t blame Barack Obama for sending his kids to an elite private school in Washington DC. Who wouldn’t want to send their kids to someplace better than DC public schools? Why does President Obama take that choice away from other inner city parents in DC who don’t have the luxury of paying any price for their childrens education? This but the latest in a long line of examples of the difference between Obama’s words and deeds. On the campaign trail, Obama talked about supporting vouchers. He also made sure that you knew how courageous he was to take on the teachers union. Here is candidate Obama ,“I ...
How Obama Killed the D.C. School-Voucher Program
The Corner on National Review Online —
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 [image] How Obama Killed the D.C. School-Voucher Program [ Veronique de Rugy ] While Obama always talks up the value of non-ideological solutions to bad public schools, he was quick to sign a bill last month that cancels a federally-funded D.C. school-voucher program after the 2009-2010 school year, unless Congress and the District government act to reauthorize it. For more on this, watch this new Reason.TV video. It features some of the kids, and their parents, who have benefited from D.C. school vouchers, and who have so much to lose from Obama's double-talk on education policy. "Out of everything else they can shut down or everything else ...
A question for President Obama
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Why?
Via Veronique de Rugy
Why?
Wizbang —
What a powerful presentation on the impact the termination of the DC school voucher program will have on those kids who have benefited from it. Hat tip: Power Line
Barry O: Enemy of Education Choice for Americans
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H/T to 84Rules We’ve known for a while that Barry is an enemy of hard working, middle class values in America. What is becoming apparent is that he’s also an enemy of education choice for American parents. ...
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DC Parents Question Obama Decision To Kill School Voucher Program
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Rally for school choice in D.C.
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D.C. parents aren’t letting the anti-choice Obama administration off the hook for strangling the city’s school choice program. They’re holding a rally at Freedom Plaza today. Watch ReasonTV’s terrific video and if you’re in the Washington area, please join the parents and children raising their voices for educational excellence and opportunity for all: Save Our D.C. Opportunity Scholarships Rally! Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Location: Freedom Plaza (Outside the Wilson Bldg.) Street: 1350 Pennsylvania Ave., NW City/Town: Washington, DC More info at Facebook ...
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I have been looking for “real” news coverage on the killing of the DC vouchers program
Does anyone know if ABC/NBC/CBS or CNN covered it at all?
This is really heartbreaking.
