DEMOCRAT is the party AGAINST education!
Just in case you forgot about Democrat opposition to education, read this from RedState:
Private Schools and the Perks of Being a Congressman
Members send their own kids, but also attack school choice
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In a town where hypocrisy is standard practice, this statistic might not surprise you: Members of Congress send their kids to private schools at a rate nearly four times of the general population.
When you consider some members’ hostility toward school choice, that number starts to mean something. Take liberal Sens. Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) and Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.), for example. Both sent their children to private schools, but you won’t find a pair more opposed to school choice in Congress. Here are some other interesting stats:
• More than 37% of Representatives and 45% of Senators responded that they had sent their children to private school;
• More than 23% of House Education and Labor Committee members and 33% of Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee members exercised private school choice; and
• Exactly 52% of Congressional Black Caucus members and 38% of Congressional Hispanic Caucus members sent at least one child to private school.
With reauthorization of No Child Left Behind among the Democrats’ priorities this year, you’d think school choice would get some attention. Not so. In fact, the legislative draft circulated by House Education and Labor Chairman George Miller (D.-Calif.) guts the school-choice provisions that were enacted in 2002.
What’s even more bothersome is that some members of Congress — who are paid $165,200 per year — have no problem sending their own kids to private schools, but want to reduce the school-choice options for those without financial means to afford it on their own.
Read the article HERE.
