CNN - "Commentary: Obama, Dems wrong to kill school vouchers" - Pro-Public Education?

[TomCADem]

I guess the new bit of internet hysteria being spread is that President Obama is going to do away with public education. Of course, no real evidence is pointed to accept for President Obama not supporting teachers who were fired due a 7 percent pass rate for high school seniors in a RI school district when he said, "If a school continues to fail its students year after year after year, if it doesn't show signs of improvement, then there's got to be a sense of accountability." "And that's what happened in Rhode Island last week at a chronically troubled school, when just 7 percent of 11th-graders passed state math tests -- 7 percent." Now, maybe the firing was not justified contrary to President Obama's opinion.

However, to argue that President Obama wants to turn to the private sector? Wasn't President Obama being attacked by the right wing not too long ago for killing private school vouchers?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/11/martin.vouchers/index.html

(CNN) -- When President Obama signs the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, there will be shouts of joy from both sides as Republicans and Democrats get their cherished earmarks.

Yet tucked into that bill is an amendment pushed by the president's former colleague in the Senate, Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin, who used his influence to essentially kill the District of Columbia school vouchers program.

Oh sure, it will be portrayed that the Democrats aren't killing the program, but the initiative calls for no new students to be allowed entry, unless approved by Congress and the District of Columbia City Council.

And considering that the teachers union has such a death grip on both Democratic-controlled institutions, you can forget about that happening.

[Clio the Leo]

1. I think it's a classic case of when BOTH sides are arguing the opposite....

... then neither can be true.