School Vouchers hopes in Newark
The debate about school vouchers is very confusing for me. It would have seemed that democrats will embrace school vouchers, a step that potentially can provide better education to for poor children. I assumed that they probably would want to build enormous bureaucracy to control, report and whatever bureaucracy does, but you can’t have it all.
I wouldn’t want to think that the wealthier people from the suburbs which use all the nice slogans actually oppose school vouchers because they do not want the poor children with their children in the same private school. But what other explanation can you give when you see the fierce resistance of these people.
But my hopes are rising reading the results of the mayor elections in Newark:
School-choice supporters need to be watching Newark, where a vocally pro-voucher mayor was just elected (along with some of his favored Municipal Council candidates): Cory Booker.
As followers of the changing politics of school-choice might guess, Booker is an African-American Democrat. His main opposition in the election came from — wait, you can get this one, too — the Newark teachers union. Still, he won by a margin of 3-to-1 over the union’s favored candidate, Ronald Rice (great name).
I do not like school vouchers because they are form of welfare and wealth distribution. However, given the other option, school vouchers is the best chance to improve the education given to poor children. And it is good to see that democratic politicians start to realize that.
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although we have a fundemantal disagreement about wealth distribution and the way coorporations increase the total wealth we might agree about school vouchers.
I simply think that attack on school voucher, by the left, doesn't make sense at all. The fact is that they are forcing the one that need better education into failing schools just to protect the unions.
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