Dan Lips and Lindsey Burke have a great piece on National Review Online today about how members of Congress (I’m looking at you Dick Durbin) and the Administration (you know who you are Obama and Duncan) either went to private school and/or sent their kids to private school, yet are willing to deny those opportunities to others.
Here’s the money quote:
“the D.C. voucher debate presents President Obama with a great opportunity to match his words with action. Before his inauguration, he published an open letter to his daughters explaining why he had sought the presidency. Obama wrote: ‘In the end, girls, that’s why I ran for President: because of what I want for you and for every child in this nation. I want all our children to go to schools worthy of their potential — schools that challenge them, inspire them, and instill in them a sense of wonder about the world around them. I want them to have the chance to go to college — even if their parents aren’t rich.’
President Obama now has the chance to live up to that promise by fighting to give low-income families the power of school choice that politicians take for granted.”
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