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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Continuing the Deliberately Misleading and Coordinated Smear on Florida’s Teachers for Opposing Blaine Amendment Repeal | Scathing Purple Musings

Continuing the Deliberately Misleading and Coordinated Smear on Florida’s Teachers for Opposing Blaine Amendment Repeal | Scathing Purple Musings:

Continuing the Deliberately Misleading and Coordinated Smear on Florida’s Teachers for Opposing Blaine Amendment Repeal

James Madison Institute public policy director Robert Sanchez was a busy man two days before Christmas. His first order of business was in contributing to a Tallahassee Democrat piece which touted school choice as” the civil rights issue of this era.”

Sanchez has obviously staked out a position which choice trumps all. Its a difficult one at times to defend when confronted by realities. Choice or “too choose” is such an ill-defined thing. For choice at-all-cost advocates like Sanchez, it ultimately presumes that some combination of federal-state-local governments will be providing universal school choice. At some point equating choice with civil rights will become absurd to the casual observer.

Sanchez and I agree on one thing. Its time to shudder to federal department of education. Our reasons are just