Comments on: DC Vouchers: One Step Up, Two Steps Back

By: Pajamas Media » Voucher Opponents Losing PR Battle

Pajamas Media » Voucher Opponents Losing PR Battle — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:02:50 +0000

[...] to shut the program down outright, union-controlled senators are now attempting to quietly write new regulations for the program that will kill it by making it impracticable. Page 1 of 2 Next [...]

By: allen

allen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:06:52 +0000

Reading about the schism on the left over public education, particularly “Liberals turn on teachers’ unions” at Joanne Jacobs blog, I thought the split was deeper then I’d thought and wider but if Feinstein and Durbin are duking it out over the D.C. voucher program then split is wider and deeper then even my optimistic outlook suggested.

By: Greg Forster

Greg Forster — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:07:57 +0000

Wait, I’m sure that was not the intent of the new Durbin measures.

But Jay, all these people going after the program also say, when judicial nominations are on the table, that original intent has nothing to do with implementing the law. Why not hold them to their words?

By: Ed is Watching » Politicians Attacking Successful, Locally-Supported DC Choice Program

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:56:29 +0000

[...] Why get angry? [Illinois Democrat] Senator [Dick] Durbin was busy introducing new, onerous regulations on the program in an appropriations bill last week. In particular, his measures would require participating private schools to take the DC public school test rather than a nationally-normed standardized test, even though they may not have the same curriculum as DCPS. His measures would also require the Secretary of Education to prohibit voucher students from attending any private school that was not deemed “superior” to DC public schools. [...]