GOODY TWO SHOES: Nice School, If You Can Afford It
The Wall Street Journal puts a human face on the victims of rescinding federal financing for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program that allows poor parents to rescue their kids from dangerous and chaotic District schools – a school voucher program that Dems have been gunning for, at the behest of their teachers’ union overlords:
Dick Durbin has a nasty surprise for two of Sasha and Malia Obama's new schoolmates. And it puts the president in an awkward position.
The children are Sarah and James Parker. Like the Obama girls, Sarah and James attend the
Unfortunately, a spending bill the Senate takes up this week includes a poison pill that would kill this program - and with it perhaps the Parker children's hopes for a Sidwell diploma.
Known as the "Durbin language" after the Illinois Democrat who came up with it last year, the provision mandates that the scholarship program ends after the next school year unless Congress reauthorizes it and the
The Journal takes it to Obama: Will he stand up for those like his own children's schoolmates - or stand in front of the Sidwell door with Mr. Durbin?
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