Drawing a line By digging in to fight the effort by President Bush to help low-income students trapped in failing schools, the education establishment belies its talk of uniting, healing and bipartisanship. But Bush does not claim vouchers are anything more than an emergency exit.
All opponents can offer is platitudes.
Their solution is spending more money, but for 100 years taxpayers have been pouring ever increasing amounts of money into schools. Graduates who can't read and write. Test scores lower than most other nations. That's an American tradition we can do without. However, there are voices of reason.