Poor Children Stuck in Bad Schools

By LaVarr Webb

The Democratic Congress and the teachers' union have pretty much killed a successful school choice initiative in Washington, D.C., despite support from city leaders and a number of prominent Democrats. Check out the Wall Street Journal editorial on the program. Here's an excerpt:

The waiting is finally over for some of the District of Columbia's most ambitious school children and their parents. Democrats in Congress voted to kill the District's Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides 1,700 disadvantaged kids with vouchers worth up to $7,500 per year to attend a private school.