A Democratic official in New York appeared to misrepresent a proposed school choice program and slander its supporters at a press conference earlier this week.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, school choice policies have been making inroads in a number of states, much to the chagrin of public school bureaucrats and teacher union activists.
In Texas, polling suggests instituting some mechanism to allow families to use taxpayer money to defray the costs of educational alternatives to traditional public schools, like homeschooling or private schools.
James Quintero of the Texas Public Policy Foundation previously told The Dallas Express, “Traditional K-12 schools are hemorrhaging enrollment due to growing concerns over content, quality, and the politicization of the classroom. This steep decline is evidence that parents are ready for something different, something better.”
Still, detractors of school choice have been unyielding. Here’s some of what Michael Torres reported on the anti-school choice official for the New York Post:
Surrounded by dozens of teachers-union officials on the steps of the Pennsylvania state Capitol this month, Democratic state Sen. Lindsey Williams excoriated a proposed K-12 education-voucher program.
She called it a conspiracy by racist, religious fundamentalists bent on destroying public education by driving “straight, white, able-bodied kids into private religious schools.”
The next day, a group of black religious leaders gathered in the state Capitol to tell Gov. Josh Shapiro to support the voucher program, called the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success.
And later that same day, Jay-Z announced he will fund a campaign to mobilize support for the legislation in Philadelphia, where voucher support among black residents stands above 90%.
One is left to make one of three conclusions: Jay-Z, Black Pastors United for Education and the vast majority of black Pennsylvania residents are secret white supremacists; they’re being unwittingly controlled by white supremacists; or Sen. Williams is not telling the truth.
That last one is, of course, the sole option based in reality. But when it comes to education, truth is of increasingly little consequence to many Democrats.
If Williams’ voucher comments weren’t enough proof of that, then the shocking public-education funding proposal Pennsylvania House Democrats passed should be.
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