[cyborg]

YES!!!!!! Anyone who doubts the effects of putting smart-yet-poor kids into schools where they excel ought to rent
"Finding Forrester".

Fear and trembling must be moving through the NEA/UFT hallways...

Randy Weingarden must be peeing her pants...

[aristeides]

I wonder if Mayor Williams did his 180 because of the scandals in the D.C. teachers' union (which, among other things, caused the problems with Williams's reelection petitions last year.)

[The Other Harry]

If this passes, the camel's nose will definitely be under the tent wall. It's about time.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

NEA, watch and learn (if you can.)

[Tacis]

Has to be the dumbest thing ever conceived. First, private school tuition will tend to rise to the voucher limits, just as Pell grants have established a rising floor of college tuition. Then, DC students will go to Virginia and Maryland, leaving the dregs of the dregs in the public schools. But, the public schools will still have to exist so total costs will not drop but rise rapidly. Finally, new private school seats will come onto the market, teaching black self-esteem and ebonics, etc., so the over all level of education will not improve over the long run.

The solution is now and always has been, to fix the public school system even if it means destroying the evil teachers' unions. Alas, private school vouchers will eventually mean that private schools (many of the, at least) will be unionized and we'll be back where we are with another 25 years worth of very badly educated inner city kids.

[grapeape]

This will end up being the finest example of government and the private sector ever implemented.

I know these kids can achieve greatness! I have seen it with my own eyes. This program will also be the end to the domonance of the democratic party in the black community.