D.C. school vouchers dead…

Brit Hume just reported on FOX that the spending bill canceled the D.C. voucher program,  which enabled 1,700 students from poor families to attend private schools.   Unsurprisingly,  their grades improved once out of the clutches of the pathetically bad D.C. public school system.

But the teachers’ unions hate voucher programs as much as they do charter schools.     And Democrats are owned by the labor unions,   so out it went.    As Hume pointed out,  it’s hard to find the killer’s fingerprints,  but a top suspect would be the No. 2 in the Senate,  Dick Durbin,   who is always eager to please any labor union.

So the children who aren’t graduating this year will be dragged back to the public school system,   while Democrats still proclaim their support for the poor,   always expressed in throwing more taxpayer money at the system instead of fixing the problems.