Gov. Tom Corbett: School Vouchers

[The Northerner]

HARRISBURG — Policy junkies hoping for meaty specifics in Gov. Tom Corbett's inaugural speech may have come away disappointed.

But buried in the middle was a clear signal of the kind of education policy the Allegheny County Republican might pursue. And it's a clean break from the philosophy of Democratic predecessor Ed Rendell, a full-throated ally of public education, who pumped millions of dollars into Pennsylvania's school systems.

"Our educational system must contend with other nations and so we must embrace innovation, competition and choice in our education system," Corbett said last week.

In other words: publicly funded vouchers that would allow some parents to take their children — and their tax money with them — out of struggling public schools to enroll them instead in better-performing public schools or in private or parochial schools.

"Today's Pennsylvania's tradition of character and courage carries on in the single mother who works an extra job so she can send her children to a better school," Corbett, a former high school history teacher, also said, in case anyone in the crowd outside the Capitol didn't get the message.

Read more: http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-corbett-school-choice-20110123,0,5756806.story

[HopeHoops]

1. Corbett is a dirtbag and if I spot him in Harrisburg, I'll drop my pants so he can kiss my hairy ass

Shithead.

[WinkyDink]

2. Take tax money FROM "struggling public schools." GENIUS! Let's hear the pittance that will send a

kid to The Hill School. Bwahahahaha!