The DC Opportunity Scholarship Program is a voucher system that was signed into law by President Bush four years ago, and has been a very successful program in the DC area, with many students now able to escape the horrendous DC public school system to private and religious schools of their parents choosing.  Be sure to read that article, there are some very positive results already showing as a result of the program.  Unfortunately, there is a growing effort to dismantle the program by Democrats in Congress, and undoubtedly, the teacher unions are behind that effort.

The public school system needs their monopoly broken up.  Not only must this DC voucher program be defended but it should be implemented on a larger scale, even the liberal dunce of a mayor in DC is strongly supportive of this voucher system.  There is a large list of students hoping to get a voucher(over 7000!), and that list will undoubtedly continue to grow if the program is allowed to continue.

Competition would force our public schools to perform better, or maybe even replace public schools fully if the they could not compete.  Teacher unions, particularly the NEA don't want to compete, because they know it would lead to their weakening and possible demise, and will do whatever is necessary to shut down this fledgling program.  We can't let them succeed.

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