Notes from the Field
Voucher Rally: The Wrong Kind of Civics Lesson
Submitted by Frank Murphy, Jan. 27, 2011
Pennsylvania school choice advocates staged a rally this past Tuesday in Harrisburg. They gathered in order to demonstrate their support for the passage Pennsylvania State Senate Bill 1. If enacted,this proposed legislation would establish a school voucher program for low-income children in the state of Pennsylvania.
The small crowd in attendance at this event was composed mainly of students and parents from Philadelphia charter schools. The children were outfitted in T-shirts that said, “Put Children First—Support School Choice.” Representatives of the Students First Political Action Committee distributed these shirts to the youthful
