Bad Lesson?

Published: Tue, 8 Sep 2009

Description: Obama tells kids to hit the books, but some of his spending cuts are barring students from the school of their choice

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" While the president told the nation's children hit the books today some students here in the nation's capital. Are being barred from the school of their choice that's because the president's own education spending plan cuts funding to a controversial voucher program. Correspondent James Rosen has the story."

" Please wait while resident. With a male god its expected life. Oh god -- way that you give them the right. Who can tell god that that -- pays -- then to thinking that's never been."

" And when -- six long time education activist Mort on the Department of Education confronting a cordon of police and a staged act of Civil Disobedience. Only to find they've literally couldn't get arrested. It was the cops who proved civil and disobedient define the usual protests and arrests scenario but the group still made its larger point protesting the Obama administration's spending cuts for the capital school voucher program."

" It deplorable the way these children in the progress has been have been treated."

" I thought you were revolved they would they thought they want practical these kids school than their parents told school that would want that them."

" Your family it's your teachers and I are doing everything we can't make sure you have the education you need. But some folks right here in mr. Obama's backyard think he can do more particularly for the 216. The low income DC students barred from private and parochial schools because his education secretary Arnie Duncan extended vouchers only for the 1700 local kids already in the program."

" It was like a slap in the face I won't work so hard to find the right school for my daughter was to help with the DC opportunity scholarship program. Dance ahead president Obama's secretary of education and take better way -- Obama."

" Churning Duncan told Fox News the students still in the DC voucher program are there because of him."

" We can't be satisfied with saving one or 2% of children and -- 9899%. Drowned. What we have to do was transform the district itself a very very encouraged with a dynamic new chancellor. The -- reasonable return America anti aboard the -- to give every child just a good chance to have a great education not just a small percent."

" Since Washington DC began an aggressive effort to reform its public schools two years ago the percentage of elementary school students passing the math proficiency test. Has risen from less than a third to nearly half. In Washington James Rosen far."

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