Will Harry Stand In The School House Doorway Like George Wallace

The House of Representatives has reinstated the school vouched in Washington D.C. Vouchers were eliminated in 2009 when the Democrats decided that poor minority students were not entitled to go to the same schools as President Obama's kids, and other kids of House and Senate Democrats. From the Washington Examiner: The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to reinstate school vouchers for District of Columbia students, reviving the only program that uses federal tax dollars to subsidize private-school tuition. The bill introduced by Republican House Speaker John Boehner would provide up to $12,000 a year for needy students to attend private schools of their choice. It was approved 225-195, largely along party lines. Democrats opposed it as an inappropriate use of federal funds and an unwelcome intrusion into local affairs. Boehner, who attended Roman Catholic schools, had tears in his eyes while describing how the program levels the playing field for families who otherwise would be forced to send their children to failing schools. "There's no controversial idea here," Boehner said. "It's the American way." The voucher program was created in 2004 with the support of the district's Democratic leadership to provide $7,500 a year to about 1,700 students. Congress agreed to begin phasing it out in 2009. The new bill would increase the annual subsidy to $8,000 for elementary and middle school tuition and $12,000 for high school. It would cost $300 million over five years, with $100 million going to the voucher program and the rest to D.C.'s public and charter schools. The bill now heads to the Senate, where prospects are uncertain. Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., is a sponsor, and will all but certainly succeed in advancing it out of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, which he chairs. But to pass the full Senate it will need support from Democrats, a handful of whom have favored D.C. school vouchers in the past. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/congress/2011/03/us-house-reinstates-dc-school-voucher-program##ixzz1I9drkoDX Of course we know that the Democrats are doing the bidding of the racist teacher unions, especially those in Washington D.C. What is even more shameful, is that Washington D.C. actually had a reformer superintendent, until she was run out of town by the Washington D.C. teacher's union, resigned when the new mayor was elected last year. Then a teacher's union favorite was then put in the superintendent's post. So, now we will watch to see if Harry Reid will put the kids first in Washington D.C or will he stand in the doorway, just like when George Wallace did when Wallace tried to block black kids from attending school in an all-white school. Will Harry bow before the teachers union and their racist leaders or will grow he a backbone and vote for the children of Washington D.C.?