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George F. Will: Utah's Schools Showdown

". . . Intellectually bankrupt but flush with cash, the teachers unions continue to push their threadbare arguments, undeterred by the fact that Utah's vouchers will increase per-pupil spending and will lower class sizes in public schools. Why the perverse perseverance? There are two large, banal reasons -- fear of competition and desire for the maximum number of dues-paying public school teachers."

Published on page A21 of the today's Washington Post. Here are the comments.

4 Comments:

 rmwarnick said...

I have yet to hear an explanation why Utahns have to pay for a national right-wing experiment in school privatization. Let them do it someplace else, please.

11/01/2007 2:27 PM  

 CraigJ said...

Pro is outspending Anti. Byrne and his parents outspent the entire NEA (made up of thousands of voluntary contributions from individual teachers).

Leave it to the predictable George Will and John Stossel to throw their grenades with a few days to go.

I asked my conservative friends what they thought of the articles. They're still voting against vouchers.

Oldenburg does a good job describing the problems with the stories:

http://3rdave.blogspot.com/2007/11/voucher-dishonesty-goes-national.html

And you guys know the "truth test" was full of inaccuracies. Why the link?

11/01/2007 3:26 PM  

 Anonymous said...

From, http://accountabilityfirst.blogspot.com/
Mr. Will should know that Utahns didn't pick this fight or start this debate. No one here asked for a private school voucher plan before out-of-state financiers -- namely All Children Matter of Michigan, but others, too -- began buying their way into Utah legislative campaigns. Even now, the most recent polls show that nearly 60 percent of Utah voters oppose it for its flaws and failures.

11/01/2007 3:32 PM  

 Rob said...

As my friend John said, "KSL rejected vouchers. So did the Davis County Clipper, and the Salt Lake Tribune. Why should we listen to George W.?"


Another George W. LOL!

11/01/2007 5:48 PM  

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