{"id":7687,"date":"2010-11-10T13:03:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T18:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2010-11-10T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T18:16:44","slug":"re-upping-d-c-school-vouchers-are-an-early-test-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7687\/re-upping-d-c-school-vouchers-are-an-early-test-for-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Upping D.C. School Vouchers Are an Early Test for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House GOP isn\u2019t wasting any time putting President Barack Obama on notice that they are ready to test his new <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2010\/10\/26\/5352943-obama-agenda-deficit-reduction-education-energy\" target=\"_blank\">commitment to bipartisanship on education<\/a> issues.\u00a0 Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the incoming-Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, is promising to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/nov\/9\/house-gop-to-push-for-school-vouchers\/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet \" target=\"_blank\">recreate the D.C. school voucher program Obama and the Democrats killed<\/a> two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Vouchers are despised by teachers\u2019 unions because the device introduces competition into the K-12 education market.\u00a0 If parents don\u2019t like the curriculum, culture or administration at a public school a voucher lets them send their children to a private school that meets their needs.\u00a0 For all the canards about separation of church and state, the real reason teachers\u2019 unions hate vouchers is because less students means less of a need for public school (i.e. unionized) teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting a bill that recreates the D.C. school voucher program would be good politics and good policy.\u00a0 Good politics because President Obama could legitimately claim a bipartisan victory with Republicans on an issue that moves the president to the political center.\u00a0 It would be good policy because it would allow low-income students the probability of the single biggest attraction of a better education: a better life.<\/p>\n<p>All this for only recreating what already existed.\u00a0 If the president can\u2019t muster the courage to support this kind of feel-good, localized issue he\u2019ll have no one to blame for the gridlock but himself.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Washington Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House GOP isn\u2019t wasting any time putting President Barack Obama on notice that they are ready to test his new commitment to bipartisanship on education issues.\u00a0 Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the incoming-Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, is promising to recreate the D.C. school voucher program Obama and the Democrats killed two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,64,2049,2050,1094],"class_list":["post-7687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-education","tag-john-kline","tag-school-voucher","tag-teachers-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7687"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7692,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7687\/revisions\/7692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}