{"id":476590,"date":"2010-03-26T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/liberals-deny-opportunity-schoolchildren-41435\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T21:21:06","slug":"liberals-deny-opportunity-to-schoolchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/476590","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Deny Opportunity to Schoolchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 03.26.10 12:00 PM posted by Jennifer Marshall<\/p>\n<p>\n&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obama-speech-1001192.jpg&quot;&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obama-speech-1001192.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;President Obama is a school choice success story, and &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Reports\/2009\/04\/How-Members-of-the-111th-Congress-Practice-Private-School-Choice&quot;&gt;38 percent of those in Congress have sent a child to a private school. So why are they denying the same choice to low-income parents in our nation&#8217;s capital?<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration and Congress have put the successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program on a path to elimination. The program provides scholarships to 1700 low-income students to attend private schools. Students are making academic gains, and parents are satisfied now that their children finally can attend safe and effective schools.<\/p>\n<p>Ten days ago, &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/17\/senate-votes-against-school-choice\/&quot;&gt;Senator Joe Lieberman argued from the Senate floor for the scholarships, which have been nothing short of life-changing for many of these children. That didn&#8217;t sway enough of his colleagues to save the scholarships. What would losing scholarships mean to the students? Let them tell you: &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/VoicesofSchoolChoice.org&quot;&gt;VoicesofSchoolChoice.org  .<\/p>\n<p>Cross-posted from&lt;ahref=&quot;https:\/\/www.lauraingraham.com\/b\/Democrats-deny-opportunity-to-schoolchildren\/-160745226378957272.html&quot;&gt; LauraIngraham.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/26\/liberals-deny-opportunity-to-schoolchildren\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/03\/26\/&#8230;choolchildren\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 03.26.10 12:00 PM posted by Jennifer Marshall &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obama-speech-1001192.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;President Obama is a school choice success story, and &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Reports\/2009\/04\/How-Members-of-the-111th-Congress-Practice-Private-School-Choice&quot;&gt;38 percent of those in Congress have sent a child to a private school. So why are they denying the same choice to low-income parents in our nation&#8217;s capital? The Obama administration and Congress have put the successful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}