…”care” so much about black people. Their hypocrisy stinks to high Heaven. Unfortunately most of the people at the rally likely voted for him and will vote for him again in 2012.

The Washington Post article noted in the link: “The Department of Education recently issued a three-year analysis of student achievement under the program that found limited gains in reading and no significant progress in math.”

A previous Wall Street Journal:
“The latest annual evaluation was finally released Friday, and it shows measurable academic gains. The Opportunity Scholarship Program provides $7,500 vouchers to 1,700 low-income families in D.C. to send their children to private schools. Ninety-nine percent of the children are black or Hispanic, and there are more than four applicants for each scholarship.

The 2008 report demonstrated progress among certain subgroups of children but not everyone. This year’s report shows statistically significant academic gains for the entire voucher-receiving population.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123897492702491091.html

hmm…who to believe?

but I don’t get it. Was this a pilot program that, if proven successful, was to roll out nation wide? I am all for improving education as I have four children in school. What I don’t understand is why we are in an uproar over 1,700 low-income families not getting vouchers anymore. I pay federal and state taxes every year and part of that goes to education. Why should more of my tax money go to a lucky few?

If this was about freedom of choice for everyone, then I could get behind the idea. If the government would allow everyone the choice to pay taxes for public education and send their children to public schools or not pay those taxes and use that money for private education, then I could see the all the hoopla.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it stinks that these children were given the chance to go to private schools and then had it taken away through no fault of their own, but just because they are from low-income families they should get special preference over other children whose families cannot pay for a private education.

If the public schools are so messed up that we need an entitlement like this shouldn’t we be trying to revamp the current system, for the benefit of all children, instead of choosing a few lucky children to receive a good education?

people will still think those opposed to Obama’s policies are doing so only because of the color of his skin? Wrong is wrong no matter what color you are. Maybe this will change that notion…for some.

tell me that if the Dems continue enacting policies that destroy the lives of black people, the free market should produce a more helpful alternative (here: the GOP), and blacks will start voting for the alternative.

I worry, though, that this requires an informed electorate to work, and who knows if someone who drops out of a horrible DC school at age 17 can really be considered ‘informed’. Yet another small way in which the libs subvert the free market.

I say it all the time and everyone should be saying it everywhere also. The Democrats are the party of the RICH and they despise and USE the poor. The minute that message takes hold and WE show how WE are the party that will give you a hand up to be the best you can be the quicker the poorest among us take the opportunities that America has to offer!

His appearance at such rallies would show that the leadership of the Republican party supports school choice.

Please let us know about these rallies in advance so we can ALL email Mr. Steele and ask him to put it on his schedule.

No worries – I’m sure DHS was collecting names and pictures of these racist extremists.

they just see them as a political commodity. Poor people don’t have the time or resources to pay attention to the details of policy. By promising them something that looks nice and shiby: Free health care, negative tax rates!, they are just betting that poor people will be unable to look behind the curtain and see the disasterous consequences of these policies. It is disgusting and cycnical and yet another reason why Obama will bring nothing but disaster to our urban centers.