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Department of Education school choice study supressed

By Steve McGough / April 7, 2009 /

Charter schools are working, vouchers are working, but teacher unions and the National Education Association helped President Obama get into the Executive Branch, so funding for programs that work is being diverted to programs – public schools – that don’t work. Hat top to Malkin for reminding me about this Wall Street Journal piece from…

Obama administration attacks school choice

By Steve McGough / March 4, 2009 /

By offering school choice, many cities – including Washington D.C. – have been able to provide some kids with the opportunity to attend better performing schools. Following marching orders from the National Education Association, the Obama administration intends to let a popular D.C. program end. As mentioned here and here, the administration is taking some heat after…

Judicial activism to the extreme: Alabama judge blocks governor from signing legislation

By Steve McGough / March 7, 2013 /

What the heck is this about? The state legislature in Alabama passes legislation – in part – giving parents who have kids in schools defined as “failing” an tax credit to pay for tuition at a private school or other public school and some judge blocks the legislature from sending the bill to the governor…

Competition in health care? How about everywhere else too?

By Steve McGough / September 9, 2009 /

I’ve been thinking about this over the weekend, and AJ over at Strata-Sphere posted the same this morning. If competition is good for health care – so much so we need a “public” option – how about competition in public schools (vouchers) and for Social Security (private accounts)?