The Education Borg
BevK January 29th, 2006
http://www.opinionjournal…ml?id=110007883
I agree with this statement from the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Page.
What the Milwaukee and Florida examples show is that unions and their allies are unwilling to let even successful voucher experiments continue to exist. If they lose one court case, they will sue again–and then again, as long as it takes. And they’ll shop their campaign cash around for years until they find a politician like Jim Doyle willing to sell out Wisconsin’s poorest kids in return for their endorsement.
The article starts with this:
Teachers unions keep telling us they care deeply, profoundly, about poor children. But what they do, as opposed to what they say, is behave like the Borg, those destructive aliens in the “Star Trek” TV series who keep coming and coming until everyone is “assimilated.”
We saw it in Florida this month when the state supreme court struck down a six-year-old voucher program after a union-led lawsuit. And now we’re witnessing it in Milwaukee, where the nation’s largest school choice program is under assault because Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle refuses to lift the cap on the number of students who can participate.
