Extension of D.C.’s Religious School Voucher Subsidy Goes Down To Defeat, But Battle Continues

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By Joseph L. Conn

Senator Jim DeMint clearly has little use for the public school system.

In a speech to a conservative gathering in Washington, D.C., in late February, the South Carolina Republican called for privatization of education in the United States. Every student, he asserted, should be given $10,000 in public funds and allowed to enroll at any school they choose – public or private, secular or religious.

“A nation that raises its children in government schools,” he thundered, “cannot expect its people to stand for the principles of freedom.”

With extreme views such as that, it’s no surprise that DeMint joined with Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and a handful of other senators in a major push in March to continue federal funding for a school voucher program in the District of Columbia indefinitely.

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