{"id":757,"date":"2002-07-01T05:07:19","date_gmt":"2002-07-01T12:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/07\/school-choice\/"},"modified":"2002-07-01T05:07:19","modified_gmt":"2002-07-01T12:07:19","slug":"school-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/school-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"School choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— Why the Voucher Issue Really Could Hurt the Dems – A dissent?from last week’s instant contrarianism By Mickey?Kaus<\/a> takes apart hard-line Democrat fantasies comparing school choice to abortion, on the political side:<\/p>\n

What commentators did say was that the voucher decision was a boost for vouchers, which seems undeniably true. (Even if vouchers don’t spread very rapidly, it has to help that they are now a constitutional possibility. Roe may have hurt liberals, but it’s hard to argue it didn’t increase abortions.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Democrats are indeed vulnerable on school choice, as soon as voters understand the issue, which they don’t yet, as a whole. Inner-city blacks and rural religious whites do, because they face the hard, entrenched incompetence of the teachers’ union, but most middle-class, urban whites are blissfully ignorant of the declining quality of the schools. Democrats are wholly-owned by the teachers’ union, and they can’t afford to alienate them, while the children getting sub-standard education don’t vote.

Education in America is so bad we’d be in an economic tailspin if it weren’t for the first-generation immigrants who make our tech sector work; as soon as the “Occupied” sign goes on over our immigration policy, we’ll see that.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Why the Voucher Issue Really Could Hurt the Dems – A dissent?from last week’s instant contrarianism By Mickey?Kaus takes apart hard-line Democrat fantasies comparing school choice to abortion, on the political side: What commentators did say was that the voucher decision was a boost for vouchers, which seems undeniably true. (Even if vouchers don’t … Continue reading “School choice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-cd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}