| "Sadly, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander has forgotten is pushing vouchers in Tennessee, which will decimate the public schools in communities across the state. I worked for Lamar Alexander when he was Secretary of Education in the first Bush administration. He is my kind of conservative: he didn't think he should shove his ideas down other people's throats. As Secretary, he knew he had to obey the law and not intrude on the right of states and localities to make decisions. He had a gut sense that other people had good ideas. Lamar's Little Plaid Book spells out his principles but I didn't read it closely, so I didn't know that Entry # 84 said this: "Read anything Diane Ravitch writes about education"... a radical ideas that will destabilize communities.Vouchers will be used to send children to little backwoods church schools with uncertified teachers.That's what happened in Louisiana... |
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