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Default Black Parents Upset About Loss Of Voucher Program

Hey negroes, and guilty white liberals, you voted for this
double-standard Marxist. You made your bed, now lie in it. Some of
the classmates of Nobama's kiddies will have to go back to the DC
jungle schools, but not Barry and Michelle's two splibs. They can
afford the $60,000 per year tuition.

Same **** will happen when socialized medicine comes to pass. You and
your kids will wait in line for eternity to be seen by some
incomeptent affirmative action quacko, while the Nobama clan gets 1st
class treatment.
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D.C. Families Bemoan Imminent Loss of Voucher Program

For the past three years, 8-year-old Nico Bennett has attended and
enjoyed private school through the voucher program in Washington.

"I like it a lot, and I get good grades," she told FOX News.

Nico's mother, Latasha Bennett, thought her 4-year-old daughter, Nia,
also had qualified for a voucher, until the Bennetts and 199 other
families got letters last week saying "no scholarships will be awarded
to new students this year."

Bennett said she was disgusted.

"Education is our children's future," she told FOX News. "Without the
proper education, there's nothing."

The D.C. program gives about 1,700 low-income children scholarships
worth up to $7,500, paid for with federal taxpayer dollars each year
to cover costs of attending private schools -- rather than the
long-troubled D.C. public schools. The five-year pilot program was set
to expire this year until Congress extended the program for only one
more school year.

As a result, Education Secretary Arne Duncan decided not to offer
vouchers for new students.

"To put them in for a year and then put them out didn't make sense,"
he said.

The issue of vouchers has exposed a deep fissure between Republicans,
who support them, and Democrats, who oppose them.

Republicans insist that parents deserve a choice if their kids are in
failing schools, saying vouchers create competition that puts pressure
on public schools to do better.

Democrats, teachers' unions and other opponents say it is impossible
to expect public schools to do better while precious public dollars
are being siphoned away to private schools.

But the voucher program in Washington has been an exception in the
debate over vouchers. Because of the sorry state of public schools in
the nation's capitol, some Democrats were willing to allow it in 2003
when a Republican-led Congress created the voucher program.

It is the only federal voucher program in the country. Other cities
and states have similar programs -- vouchers are available in
Milwaukee, Cleveland, Florida, Utah, Arizona and Georgia -- but they
are paid for with local tax dollars.

Supporters of vouchers have said teachers unions are putting pressure
on Congress and the Obama administration to kill the voucher program
in Washington. But Duncan insists that had nothing to do with it.

"No, that's a non-issue," he said. "The issue for me is I'm really
concerned about the 1,700 students. We want to try and make sure they
can stay in schools they want to be in."

Meanwhile, voucher program students, such as sophomore Ronald
Holassie, wonder if they'll be able to stay in their schools or return
to the D.C. public schools.

"It hits me in the hardest year -- senior year. It's going to hit me
that I have to go back. All that I worked for in my high school years,
I would lose."

Two other students who would lose are Sarah and James Parker. They go
to Sidwell Friends, the same private school Sasha and Malia Obama
attend. They'll have to go back to public school at the end of next
year unless Congress and the D.C. City Council approve extending the
voucher program.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...ucher-program/
 




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