President Obama will ask Congress to temporarily extend the school voucher program in the District of Columbia until students now attending private high schools with taxpayer dollars graduate...
If it's working, why keep it?
"It's the President and Arne's belief that we should fund them all the way through their high school education," says Education Department spokesman Peter Cunningham. But he adds that neither Duncan nor Obama is seeking to continue the program further. Democrats have pushed to end it, saying vouchers take needed funds from public schools.
And Duncan continues:
"At the end of the day, I don't think vouchers are the answer." He added, "We have to be much more ambitious for ourselves and have higher expectations. We have to help every child in D.C. … The answer is not vouchers for few. It's massive change, massive reform for all, absolutely as quickly as possible."
I just have one question...where would Secretary Duncan send his kids? We already know where the president does...
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