A vote for school choice

USA Today called school choice "the most effective way" to give 20 million low-income students a chance to succeed. In an editorial today, the newspaper also took President Obama to task for killing a voucher program that allows poor parents to make the same he choice he made: a successful private school for his daughters over the notoriously failing public schools of Washington, D.C.

The editorial continues:

"All this occurred as the Education Department reported that voucher participants show superior skills in reading, safety and orderliness. The news was buried in an impenetrable study released without a news conference.

'Why the ambivalence? Because teacher unions, fearing loss of jobs, have pushed most Democrats to oppose vouchers and other options that invite competition for public schools. Put another way, they oppose giving poor parents the same choice that the president himself — along with his chief of staff and some 35% of Democrats in Congress — have made in sending their children to private schools."

To read the full editorial, click HERE.