January 30, 2007; Page A16
The federal No Child Left Behind Act is set for renewal this year, and
the big news so far is that President Bush is resurrecting the voucher
proposal from his first term. "We can lift student achievement even
higher by giving local leaders flexibility to turn around failing
schools," Mr. Bush said in his State of the Union address, "and by
giving families with children stuck in failing schools the right to
choose something better."

The President campaigned on this concept in 2000, too, only to throw
NCLB's choice provisions over the side to cut a bipartisan deal with
Senator Ted Kennedy and Representative George Miller. Both Democrats
carry water for the teachers unions, and so it's no surprise that both
men quickly denounced the new Bush proposal last week. Let's hope Mr.
Bush isn't merely using "choice" again as a negotiating ploy to be
tossed out once talks on Capitol Hill get going.

NCLB's testing provisions have been useful in bringing more
transparency to achievement gaps among schools, and among certain
types of students within schools. But the most effective way to hold
public schools accountable is by arming parents with more education
choices. Nothing motivates teachers, principals and administrators
like the threat of losing their charges (and the attendant funding) to
"something better." Mr. Bush could pick worse fights than arguing that
poor kids should be able to escape failing schools.

> From: "Earl Evleth" <[email protected]>
> Organization: http://groups.google.com
> Newsgroups: alt.activism.death-penalty,rec.travel.europe,alt.politics.bush
> Date: 30 Jan 2007 11:48:02 -0800
> Subject: Voucher Comeback
>
> January 30, 2007; Page A16
> The federal No Child Left Behind Act is set for renewal this year,

Forged post.

Donna Evleth

Earl Evleth wrote:
> January 30, 2007; Page A16
> The federal No Child Left Behind Act is set for renewal this year, and
> the big news so far is that President Bush is resurrecting the voucher
> proposal from his first term. "We can lift student achievement even
> higher by giving local leaders flexibility to turn around failing
> schools," Mr. Bush said in his State of the Union address, "and by
> giving families with children stuck in failing schools the right to
> choose something better."
>
> The President campaigned on this concept in 2000, too, only to throw
> NCLB's choice provisions over the side to cut a bipartisan deal with
> Senator Ted Kennedy and Representative George Miller. Both Democrats
> carry water for the teachers unions, and so it's no surprise that both
> men quickly denounced the new Bush proposal last week. Let's hope Mr.
> Bush isn't merely using "choice" again as a negotiating ploy to be
> tossed out once talks on Capitol Hill get going.
>
> NCLB's testing provisions have been useful in bringing more
> transparency to achievement gaps among schools, and among certain
> types of students within schools. But the most effective way to hold
> public schools accountable is by arming parents with more education
> choices. Nothing motivates teachers, principals and administrators
> like the threat of losing their charges (and the attendant funding) to
> "something better." Mr. Bush could pick worse fights than arguing that
> poor kids should be able to escape failing schools.
>

Vouchers were ruled unconstitutional in Florida because the Florida
Constitutional requires a unitary education system. There are still
McKay scholarships for handicapped students that is a type of voucher,
but neither political party wants to stop this program.

With a Dem House and Senate, the Bush voucher program is DOA. This
program was really designed to provide a federal subsidies to parochial
schools.

Florida still has charter schools and Edison Schools, but the
performance of these schools is not better than public schools when
standardized tests like the Florida FCAT are administered. Private
schools don't have to take this test, so their performance level in not
known.

The conservative social experiment of vouchers is over in Florida. I
don't think vouchers will pass legal muster in most states.

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> Earl Evleth wrote:
>> January 30, 2007; Page A16
>> The federal No Child Left Behind Act is set for renewal this year,
>> and the big news so far is that President Bush is resurrecting the
>> voucher proposal from his first term. "We can lift student
>> achievement even higher by giving local leaders flexibility to turn
>> around failing schools," Mr. Bush said in his State of the Union
>> address, "and by giving families with children stuck in failing
>> schools the right to choose something better."
>>
<snip>
>
> Vouchers were ruled unconstitutional in Florida because the Florida
> Constitutional requires a unitary education system. There are still
> McKay scholarships for handicapped students that is a type of voucher,
> but neither political party wants to stop this program.
>
> With a Dem House and Senate, the Bush voucher program is DOA. This
> program was really designed to provide a federal subsidies to
> parochial schools.
>
> Florida still has charter schools and Edison Schools, but the
> performance of these schools is not better than public schools when
> standardized tests like the Florida FCAT are administered. Private
> schools don't have to take this test, so their performance level in
> not known.
>
> The conservative social experiment of vouchers is over in Florida. I
> don't think vouchers will pass legal muster in most states.

Most people who send their kids to private schools do so for religious
reasons. Shrub's support of vouchers is nothing more than a thinly
disguised scheme to use tax money to support organized religion and play
to his bible thumping base (just about the only one he has left).
Interestingly enough, he never really had any intention of going through
with the plan which had no practical means of success. It was and
always has been a ploy to get votes from Christers.