February 07, 2012
David Brooks devoted today’s column to a plea to use a broad range of approaches to combating poverty in the hope that some will work. For this reason his focus on President Obama’s decision to end a school voucher program in the District of Columbia is misplaced.
President Obama is not ending school voucher programs, in fact he is protecting the idea of local control that could lead to exactly the sort of diversity of approaches that Brooks is touting. The issue is that Congress has sought to deny local control to the District of Columbia, which has opted not to use school vouchers. Obama’s action simply gives the same authority to the people of the District of Columbia to run their schools as people in other cities in other cities enjoy.
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