Education can open the floodgate to opportunity for blacks and poor children.
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies indicates that a large percentage of blacks and Hispanics support school vouchers. To deny blacks and the poor the opportunity for better learning is ultimately racist and discriminatory. By keeping blacks and poor uneducated by a failing government controlled school system, they are in effect, sentenced to a life of a second class citizenship at best. However, in Washington D.C., each time similar bills are proposed by Republicans, a Democratic President vetoes the bill. Teachers and their unions represent approximately 3 million constituents, most being Democrat.