Voucher programs are designed to help poor kids, stuck in failing public schools, go to better schools to get the education they deserve.
Why do liberals, as a group, tend to oppose this? Is it just because teachers unions, for whom liberals have political sympathy, have something to lose?
This is one of those things where I just cannot fathom where the other side is coming from, particularly when liberals claim to care about helping the poor.
In this case, the state of Louisiana has a very popular, seemingly very successful, voucher program. The Obama administration is suing to block the program, for some reason having to do with the racial makeup of schools. But the voucher program is helping mostly poor black kids, by putting them in better schools.
I don't get it.
And in terms of flexing political muscle to serve its own ends, the NRA has nothing on the teachers unions.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/...ntcmp=HPBucket