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My own kids are at Georgetown Day
Washington Monthly, Nov, 2004 by Charles Peters
More evidence that a lot is left to do if No Child is to be Left Behind comes from Bush's fans at The Washington Times, so it should not be subject to the administration's usual disdain for reports from what it regards as the liberal media. The Times article is based on a study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute that finds that, in many large cities, a high percentage of public school teachers send their own children to private schools: 44 percent in Philadelphia, 41 in Cincinnati, 39 in Chicago, 35 in Baltimore, 33 in New York, and 28 in Washington, D.C.
The Times uses these figures to make the case for vouchers. And I favor vouchers as a short-term solution for poor parents whose children are trapped in terrible school systems. But it seems to me the main point of the figures is to show the need for major reform of public education in these large cities and everywhere else the public schools are in a bad way. To me, the tragedy of George W. Bush's presidency is that he won the 2000 election with No Child Left Behind but proceeded to leave the program behind as he became obsessed with Iraq.
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