Now the Obama administration supports vouchers?

[Orlandodem]

He really, REALLY doesn't want my vote.

First merity pay and RTTT. Now this?

I can't cast my ballot for him a 2nd time. I won't vote R but I don't see how I can vote for him. I hope he finds 4,000,000 other votes because the teachers who voted for him are gone. Is ANYONE with intelligence advising this guy?

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/content/obama-administration-supports-vouchers

[Hannah Bell]

1. Taxes funding religious schools. What a travesty. This is crap.

In a move that stunned advocates of church-state separation and public education, the Obama administration last month filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing in favor of a controversial Arizona program that diverts tax dollars to religious and other private schools.

The Arizona scheme allows taxpayers to make contributions to private voucher organizations that in turn pay for tuition at private schools. The donors then take a 100 percent tax credit for the donation. Critics call the set-up a backdoor voucher plan.

http://www.au.org/media/church-and-state/archives/2010/11/obama-administration-backs.html

[thereismore]

3. Could this be the last straw for me? I am really sensitive about this, Mr. President. nt

[and-justice-for-all]

16. Then tax the damn churches too! nt

[somone]

2. We need a primary

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[ibegurpard]

10. you obviously haven't been following this issue very closely

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Perhaps he's getting his ideas from here:

>>>>Yet there is currently a vogue to recruit and train principals who have little or no education experience. (The George W. Bush Institute just announced its intention to train 50,000 new principals in the next decade and to recruit noneducators for this sensitive post.)>>>>>>>

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/11/myth-charter-schools/


We seem to back where we started, don't we?

[JoePhilly]

7. I found this quote interesting ....

"Not a cent, not a fraction of a cent" of the challengers' money goes to fund religion," Katyal said. Justice Elena Kagan, who was Katyal's supervisor before she joined the court in August, was one of several liberal justices who took issue with Katyal's assertion. Kagan called it "silly.""

Help me remember, who put KAGAN on the Supreme Court??

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. I don't want one cent of my taxes paying to brainwash children.

And make no mistake about it. That is what the fundies do.

[ibegurpard]

9. NOW???

some of us have been harping about this for months.

[Little Star]

11. I am sick of this shit!

[cyr330]

12. He was for that crock of shift in the last election

whenever he was asked about it. How in the fuck he thinks charter schools will answers our nation's education problems is way beyond me.

[Karmadillo]

13. Look! Over there! Sarah Palin is trying to steal your dog!

nt

[Raine]

14. I'm so over Obama

he's going to have drop all these repuklican ways of siding on issues if he wants to get my vote again.

[Exilednight]

15. So, let's get this straight ...............

public schools to charter schools to vouchers. Anyone know the next step?

[Hannah Bell]

17. privatized for-profit ed. funded with tax money.

[Exilednight]

18. BINGO! We have a winner to the answer, but we all lose in the process. n/t

[SidDithers]

19. Unrec...nt

Sid

[stray cat]

20. Students should have to attend school in the neighborhood their parents can afford to live in

It keeps them in their proper place and keeps them from gaining an education where they can compete with the good people from good neighborhoods for jobs