Found here. Short version: turns out that if you like school choice, you probably wanted Rahm Emanuel to win re-election as Chicago mayor. His opponent hated it, just like the unions told him to.
I know. Go figure, huh?
Tag: school choice
My Watchdog.com piece on Virginia school choice advances is up.
Title: “Virginia Democrats value teacher’s unions over special needs kids by opposing school choice.” It’s all about the money, of course. It usually is, with that crowd.
My Watchdog.org article on School Choice is up.
It’s the one called “Minority, Democratic supporters of school choice obscured by entrenched union interests.” Which, of course, you can see once you click the link. So. Kind of redundant of me to put it that way, huh?
An interactive ‘school choice by state map’ over at the Friedman Foundation.
This might prove useful for people: it breaks down the school choice situation by state. The individual state entries describe current government programs involving school choice and a limited list of links to state-specific school choice-related stories. I’m putting it up because I’ve actually been looking for a list like this, and Amplify School Choice linked to it and a bunch of other sites here. Every little bit of information helps.
My suggestion on how to talk about school choice.
While I like Jim Geraghty’s point, here (spoiler warning: he and I think that ‘C’ is the best way to put this):
Which argument is likely to be most effective?
A) School choice is a good idea because it is consistent with the conservative principles that the government that is closest to the people is most likely to make the best decisions, is most accountable for those decisions, and is easiest to correct those decisions.
B) School choice is a good idea because it is consistent with the libertarian principles that the power of the state should be limited and the power of the individual should be maximized.
C) School choice is a good idea because it puts decisions in the hands of parents, who know what is best for their children.
Continue reading My suggestion on how to talk about school choice.
#amplifychoice webcast today at 4 PM. #rsrh #schoolchoice
The embed, if you are interested.
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It’s part of National School Choice Week, which is something that I should have been more activist toward this week, sorry. I claim the excuse of various family members being sick and generally cry pardon
Eric Holder goes to judicial war over school choice using documents that he… can’t find now.
I am going to break a rule and simply reproduce this entire post from the Louisiana Governor’s office. If Bobby Jindal has a problem with that – and I don’t think that the Governor will – I am sure that he will tell me so fairly quickly. It really cannot be excerpted; the idiocy of the federal government here is too stunning to do anything except appreciate in all of its, ah, glory.
Prepare to marvel at the l33t legal skills of Eric Holder’s Justice Department:
Meet New Mexico’s liberal Tim Keller, before he becomes fake-moderate Tim Keller.
Well, let us not ignore the upcoming election cycle simply because the Obama administration has decided to go utterly mad this week. Below for your dubious delectation is a video from the New Mexico Republican party on one Tim Keller, who is being pushed out as a stealth liberal challenger to Governor Susana Martinez next year. I say “stealth” because – well, watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5OxEQ01GoI&feature=youtu.be
Short version of the video: Keller is trying out the moderate pro-business line, which is clashing horribly with his tendency to see anti-union conspiracies under the bed that he’s made with Moveon.org (and the zombie remnants of the Occupy movement). Couple that with the fact that Keller’s an anti-digital education Luddite who hates school choice… Continue reading Meet New Mexico’s liberal Tim Keller, before he becomes fake-moderate Tim Keller.
New Heritage video: “Our Choice.”
Heritage has a new video up on school choice (short version: they like it, and so should you):
Wisconsin progressives attack charter school.
Yup, ‘attacked.’ Those locks didn’t vandalize themselves, and they weren’t vandalized by the Scott Walker administration. That leaves a pretty small list of suspects from which to choose. Anyway, I’m just putting this video about the protests at Messmer Preparatory Catholic School (via Hot Air) up, without any of the (scathing) editorial comments that I had originally written.
But see if you can guess what the major difference was between the ‘choice’ school kids being protested at, and the screaming vandals doing the protesting. Hint: if you know anything about the DC school choice saga then you already know what I’m talking about – which is also true if you’re a typical progressive activist. The only difference there is, you’d rather gargle razor blades then admit that you do know what I’m talking about*. Continue reading Wisconsin progressives attack charter school.