Comments on: Vouchers In Moderation Are No Vice? http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/03/vouchers-in-moderation-are-no-vice.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:45:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: gio blog http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/03/vouchers-in-moderation-are-no-vice.html/comment-page-1#comment-60977 gio blog Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:13:52 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=3833#comment-60977 I appreciate the fact that you are letting us see the previews I appreciate the fact that you are letting us see the previews

]]> By: Derrell Bradford http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/03/vouchers-in-moderation-are-no-vice.html/comment-page-1#comment-59800 Derrell Bradford Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:02:21 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/?p=3833#comment-59800 If Durbin, etc., were smart they would have let this "outbreak" live, quietly, but contained. Now they have a repeat of the Holmes-Norton debacle of last summer. The only reason why there is even a discussion about grandfathering students currently attending private schools is because the smash and grab to kill the program was so visible. I think the more telling bit here (other than the inherent social injustice) is that congressional dems think that stopping 1,700 kids from using "vouchers" even rises to an actionable level with everything else that is going on in the economy and the country. If it's "not" their priority, then it is certainly the priority of one of a short list of large school-based interests who seem to be all too willing to pull their strings and flex their muscles on this issue. And then...from the White house...silence. If Durbin, etc., were smart they would have let this “outbreak” live, quietly, but contained. Now they have a repeat of the Holmes-Norton debacle of last summer. The only reason why there is even a discussion about grandfathering students currently attending private schools is because the smash and grab to kill the program was so visible.

I think the more telling bit here (other than the inherent social injustice) is that congressional dems think that stopping 1,700 kids from using “vouchers” even rises to an actionable level with everything else that is going on in the economy and the country. If it’s “not” their priority, then it is certainly the priority of one of a short list of large school-based interests who seem to be all too willing to pull their strings and flex their muscles on this issue.

And then…from the White house…silence.

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