Archive for January 15th, 2008
This should be Eliot Spitzer’s primary challenge, combined with a reduction in spending and taxes. Anything less from him will render him a complete failure.
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That could be the headline if a voucher system were implemented. The winners would be the students, parents and the City. The losers would be under-performing schools.
One of several things Democrat John O. Norquist became famous for during his four terms as mayor of Milwaukee was his enthusiastic implementation of a school-voucher system for his city.
The popularity of the school-choice program, which started in 1991 with 1,500 students and now serves more than 12,000 of the city’s roughly 110,000 students, has helped to reverse Milwaukee’s population decline, Norquist says. It has lured new residents to the city of 602,000 and it has kept many families from leaving for the suburbs when their kids hit school age.
Norquist is currently the president of the Congress for the New Urbanism in Chicago, where he was Thursday, Jan. 10, when I spoke with him by telephone.
Read it all: Townhall.com::John Norquist and the Lessons of School Choice::By Bill Steigerwald
