As I said, “Where are the Democrats?”
In bed with the Republicans!!
Wake up, People!! There is NO EXCUSE for ANYBODY to support this crap!! It should be PERFECTLY CLEAR who is being served by our so-called “REPRESENTATIVES” - Democrats as well as Republicans!
It sure as hell isn’t US!!!
R's & D's concentrate on getting elected, but if they get elected and act like this, what good is that for the people?
The World Can’t Wait!! Drive these liars – R’s & D’s out!!
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From “People for the American Way”
As we wrote to you three weeks ago, the Bush administration and its congressional allies moved quickly to take advantage of hurricane Katrina to enact a national voucher program under the guise of providing educational relief for displaced children. Now, shockingly, some Democrats and moderate Republicans are rumored to be considering caving in on a "compromise" that uses an elaborate bureaucracy to hide the fact that it funnels public dollars into private schools.
If voucher advocates were truly interested in educating displaced children, they could have supported the bipartisan education relief bill introduced in Congress in early September. Instead, they chose to fight that legislation in order to advance an old objective of the right wing -- to divert public funds into private schools.
Under the proposed scheme, the federal Department of Education would channel our tax dollars through a series of state and local agencies before transferring these funds to private schools through a vehicle they're calling student "accounts." Vouchers by another name remain the same: bad for our children's public education.
This plan has no meaningful provision to hold private schools accountable for their use of public money. Not only is there no way to require that these schools maintain educational standards, there is also nothing to prevent them from using our tax dollars to engage in discriminatory hiring practices. Such a plan threatens religious liberty by allowing for federal funding of religious education. And it would require taxpayers to pick up the tab for wealthy families who can afford private school tuition and choose not to send their children to public schools.
In bed with the Republicans!!
Wake up, People!! There is NO EXCUSE for ANYBODY to support this crap!! It should be PERFECTLY CLEAR who is being served by our so-called “REPRESENTATIVES” - Democrats as well as Republicans!
It sure as hell isn’t US!!!
R's & D's concentrate on getting elected, but if they get elected and act like this, what good is that for the people?
The World Can’t Wait!! Drive these liars – R’s & D’s out!!
* * * * *
From “People for the American Way”
As we wrote to you three weeks ago, the Bush administration and its congressional allies moved quickly to take advantage of hurricane Katrina to enact a national voucher program under the guise of providing educational relief for displaced children. Now, shockingly, some Democrats and moderate Republicans are rumored to be considering caving in on a "compromise" that uses an elaborate bureaucracy to hide the fact that it funnels public dollars into private schools.
If voucher advocates were truly interested in educating displaced children, they could have supported the bipartisan education relief bill introduced in Congress in early September. Instead, they chose to fight that legislation in order to advance an old objective of the right wing -- to divert public funds into private schools.
Under the proposed scheme, the federal Department of Education would channel our tax dollars through a series of state and local agencies before transferring these funds to private schools through a vehicle they're calling student "accounts." Vouchers by another name remain the same: bad for our children's public education.
This plan has no meaningful provision to hold private schools accountable for their use of public money. Not only is there no way to require that these schools maintain educational standards, there is also nothing to prevent them from using our tax dollars to engage in discriminatory hiring practices. Such a plan threatens religious liberty by allowing for federal funding of religious education. And it would require taxpayers to pick up the tab for wealthy families who can afford private school tuition and choose not to send their children to public schools.
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