Saturday, January 28, 2017

D.C. Student Explains Worth of Vouchers (Video) : Escaping Failure

Why is there so much push back from progressives in the media and progressive democrats against providing a good education to those that need it the most to escape poverty and the pestilence that comes with it?

Do the progressive liberal democrats really hate poverty, or is it that they just hate those that are poor and disadvantaged? That the democrats use and abuse the poor as tools to gain power and influence and therefore see them as weak and disgusting? Why else would the democrats act this way?

Can it be just the public educational system supporters, mostly progressive democrats in the NEA that benefit the most from the obscene amounts of money that is demanded each year from the public to run what everyone knows is a failed and corrupt public educational system?

Can it be just about the money and the power to control others?

Remember, it was Barack on nearly his first day in office, he canceled the Charter School system in D.C. as a pay back to the NEA for it's support, and thereby throwing thousands of students into the streets, back into the disaster that is the public educational system from which they fled.

Worse, there was nearly no push back from the Republicans or Conservatives as they were terrified of be called racists if they opposed the first black president by the media and media's friends in congress, progressive socialist liberal democrats, the supposed champions of the middle classes and the poor.

One thing that is obvious, if the poor become educated, more eligible and capable of find good jobs and therefore become successful, prosperous, they will not likely to vote democrat. It makes good sense for the democrats that the poor and the disadvantaged must remain poor and disadvantaged.

Who knew?

Only 2 Miles, but a Planet Away
Kelsey Harkness / /     

Just over 2 miles from the U.S. Capitol lives Kariah Butler, a 10-year-old girl being raised by a single mom. Looking for a way out of the neighborhood public school, which last year graduated less than 50 percent of its class, Kariah’s mother signed her up for the federal school voucher program.

Called the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, it launched in 2004 to serve low-income students in the nation’s capital by awarding them vouchers to attend a private school of their choice. Spending a fraction per student compared to public schools, this school choice program has increased graduation rates by 21 percentage points.

Under the new Republican-led administration, school choice advocates are hopeful that efforts like the D.C Opportunity Scholarship Program won’t just survive, but perhaps even expand. On Thursday, President Donald Trump lent his support to the movement and issued an official proclamation declaring Jan. 22-28, 2017, as National School Choice Week.

The Daily Signal traveled to the Anacostia section of Washington to meet Kariah and see what life is like over the bridge, where school choice is helping, one child at a time.

Watch the video - https://youtu.be/RjfQEbmDnHU

 

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