In other news, Democrats still hate children

This kerfuffle has been brewing for some time, and if it actually happens, I expect to see Obama fiddle while Washington burns. Of the 200 children who will be directly affected, consider that three of them attend school with his two props/daughters at the Quaker snobatorium, Sidwell Friends. Fear not for those girls - rest assured that headline-grabbers like Hitchens or gazillionaire limosouine liberals who despise bad publicity will pay for the three girls all the way through their Womyn's Studies grad courses at Brown. 

School vouchers are, frankly, almost frivolous in budgetary terms. More astonishing, they are supported by the vast swaths of voters who are not linked by syringe to a union. But after the debt he owes to Planned Parenthood, The Dear Leader's blood pact with the NEA is the strongest. Nobody raised more grassroots money for him, and there is nothing that disturbs the NEA more than children getting a decent education, especially if that education takes place outside the walls of a public education prison. There are several premises to this theory of children not being educated in public schools; one presumes that the NEA's strongest argument lay in that it makes it much more difficult for their female teachers to rape the male children. Anyway, Juan Williams unloads:

And all along the administration indicated that pending evidence that this voucher program or any other produces better test scores for students they were willing to fight for it. The president has said that when it comes to better schools he is open to supporting “what works for kids.” That looked like a level playing field on which to evaluate the program and even possibly expanding the program.

But last week Secretary Duncan announced that he will not allow any new students to enter the D.C. voucher program. In fact, he had to take back the government’s offer of scholarships to 200 students who had won a lottery to get into the program starting next year. His rationale is that if the program does not win new funding from Congress then those students might have to go back to public school in a year.

He does not want to give the students a chance for a year in a better school? That does not make sense if the students and their families want that life-line of hope. It does not make sense if there is a real chance that the program might win new funding as parents, educators and politicians rally to undo the “bigotry of low expectations” and open doors of opportunity — wherever they exist — for more low-income students.