TIME FOR A CHANGE - JAM for 5/27/08 Education Choice Rollin' Down the Track!

Howdy –

 

With many Republicans and conservatives in a blue funk – here’s some cheering news we ought to emphasize. I confess it had passed me by for I did not realize there are 23 states plus the D.C. government have opted for change involving free choice. The latest is Georgia – last year it was Louisiana and there are about 23 plus the District who are lowering the gates of demographics to keep people out and gradually approaching the standard that if Congressmen can choose where to send their kids to school, the rest of us ought to have the same opportunity.

 

The Teacher’s unions have always been the bugabears… but there’s enough data now to show competition actually makes public schools better, stronger more efficient. And with State budgets being overwrought it’s *good* news we ought to emphasize and ask our lawmakers to get with it. It’s a train coming down the tracks – you can hear the rumble.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack Buttram

 

Script and links are below.

 

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

TIME FOR CHANGE

Just A Minute – Milton Friedman & Paul Weyrich – are two names to enshrine among those who’ve rescued American children’s education. Georgia and Louisiana have recently passed legislation removing demographic limitations and improving what will ultimately save the failing public school system.

Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, just a week or so ago, signed into law what Paul Weyrich, head of Free Congress Foundation, calls the “the most expansive school-choice program in the nation.” So, including Louisiana, -- which passed a similar law last year -- there are now 23 plus school-choice programs in 14 states plus the District of Columbia. It’s coming friends!

Robert Enlow, who heads the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, says, "The old idea of limiting school choice based on family income is coming to an end.”  Politicians afraid voucher programs will destroy the public school system must face the fact competition actually strengthens public schools, and teacher’s union propaganda is a big lie.

Weyrich says, “Lets celebrate this development in Georgia. [It’s] a victory for … all parents concerned for public education in these United States. “
            <> I’m Jack Buttram.

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