The Little Voucher Engine Keeps Chugging Along

September 7, 2010

Despite various reports of the death of vouchers, mostly from people wishing that the idea were in fact dead, voucher programs and supporters keep gaining steam.

Today in the WSJ we learn about how both Democratic and Republican candidates for governor in Pennsylvania are voucher supporters.   As the piece concludes:

The Obama Administration, which is phasing out a popular and successful school voucher program in Washington, D.C., at the insistence of teachers unions, refuses to acknowledge that vouchers can play a role in reforming K-12 education. But states and cities are the real engines of reform, and the Pennsylvania developments are another sign that the school choice movement is alive and well.

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Posted by Jay P. Greene

Yet Another Dem for Choice

May 12, 2010

(Guest post by Greg Forster)

In today’s Journal, a candidate for Pennsylvania governor offers a hard-hitting argument for school choice. And this is no “lifeboats for the worst off” argument for rinky-dink vouchers. He denounces the money myth and argues that every institution needs competition to thrive – the argument for universal choice.

Oh, did I mention he’s Democrat Anthony Williams?

The unions are still strong, but every day they’re a little bit less strong. And this is how it happens – the social justice folks are waking up to realize what the unions are all about, and they’re starting to contest the unions’ hammerlock on the Democratic party. What was it Danny DeVito said in Other People’s Money? “Obsolescence . . . down the tubes, slow but sure.”

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Posted by Greg Forster