Obama "Justice" Dept: Called In To Bully WI

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Obama "Justice" Dept: Called In To Bully WI

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As everyone knows, unions represent about a 5 to 7 billion dollar slush fund for the Democrat's political machine:

It is as remarkable as it is repulsive, the ingenuity with which the Obama administration uses the regulatory state’s intricacies to advance progressivism’s project of breaking nongovernmental institutions to government’s saddle. Eager to sacrifice low-income children to please teachers unions, the Justice Department wants to destroy Wisconsin’s school choice program. Feigning concern about access for disabled children, the department aims to handicap all disadvantaged children by denying their parents access to school choices of the sort affluent government lawyers enjoy.

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Closing the voucher program is the obvious objective of the teachers unions and hence of the Obama administration. Herding children from the choice schools back into government schools would swell the ranks of unionized teachers, whose union dues fund the Democratic Party as it professes devotion to “diversity” and the downtrodden.

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WILL responds that this is like arguing that when food stamps are used for purchases at Wal-Mart, America’s largest private employer ceases to be private — it becomes an extension of the government. Inconveniently for the Justice Department, the U.S. Supreme Court has said the fact that a “private entity performs a function which serves the public does not make its acts state action.” The Supreme Court has held that, under voucher programs, government does not place children in schools; the placements are made by parents empowered by vouchers.

The good news is that Washington is bludgeoning Wisconsin with a legal theory too cynical to succeed. The bad news is that the bigger government becomes, the bolder it becomes in bullying people with legal complexities, confident that its nastiness will rarely be noticed because there is simply too much government to monitor.

The Justice Department becomes a schoolyard bully in Wisconsin
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Re: Obama "Justice" Dept: Called In To Bully WI

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The issue at hand is that private schools have selective admissions criteria and overwhelmingly refuse to admit disabled children. The vouchers do not cover the cost of supporting the disabled. This is the primary issue. Secondarily, special needs children affect performance scores and face a great deal of bigotry. What ends up happening is the vouchers drain the public school funds that are legally required to provide education access to the disabled, which then in turns kneecaps public schools funding to cost ratios. The more robust the voucher system, the worse this issue is.

What's the solution here in your view BCSPace? Raise property taxes to make up for the funding loss caused by voucher money flowing out of the system only for the cheap to educate kids? Reduce quality of education and care for the disabled to negligent levels? Forbid schools accepting vouchers from discriminating access on the basis of ability? Allow public schools to refuse admissions as well and let the disabled and their parents drown if they are not personally wealthy? What do you see as the end-game? This isn't an easily figured out issue if you support vouchers.
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