Dems Kill Choice for Kids in DC

Over the years, prominent Democrats in Congress and in the White House have sent their children to private schools in DC. I don't have a problem with their choice to do that. They only want what's best for their children, after all. What parent wouldn't? But I am sick at the Congressional Dem majority that killed school choice in DC for needy kids. The $410 billion bill was stuffed with pork but not a mite for those kids. No, no, no the Dems can't upset the patronage job mill of the teachers union that kicks back big contributions for them. These children are expendable.

The children had hope. They made an appeal. More: The Swedish model for success on school choice. School choice can bring big savings:

• As states struggle to close deficits that in some cases exceed 20 percent of their projected budgets for next year, the Cato Institute's Adam Schaeffer argues that school-choice mechanisms could not only expand educational opportunity but also alleviate fiscal pressure on states and localities:

A recent fiscal analysis of the Cato's Institute's broad-based education tax credit program demonstrates that it can save states billions of dollars. New York could save more than $6 billion over the first five years alone, while Illinois could save more than $3 billion and South Carolina more than $400 million. And even the small programs already up and running had saved taxpayers more than $444 million by 2006.