(Guest post by Dan Lips)
Just as Louisiana appears likely to become the newest state with a school voucher progarm, liberals on Capitol Hill are working to end school choice in the District of Columbia.
As I explained in a post over at Heritage’s The Foundry, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is working to kill the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship progarm, which is currently helping 1,900 low-income kids attend private school in the nation’s capital. Today, the Washington Post goes after her effort in an editorial:
DEL. ELEANOR Holmes Norton‘s campaign against school vouchers in the District has hit a new low. While proclaiming a desire to protect children, she is seeking to eliminate a program that benefits them and that is valued by their parents. Her actions make it all the more urgent for Mayor Adrian M. Fenty to convince Congress that the educational interests of children are more important than party ideology. Failure to do so would imperil not just the 1,900 children in the scholarship program but the essence of school reform in the District.
To meet some of the families who would be harmed if Norton’s succeeds, visit Voices of School Choice, a new website where parents and students participating in the voucher progarm explain how scholarships are improving their lives.
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