Friday, January 06, 2006

Vouchers, (Unconstitutional), Vouchers (Lite), and Vouchers (Stupid)

Well, well, well. Whaddya know. Jeb Bush’s proudest achievement just went down in flames. Florida’s Supreme Court ruled Frank Corte’s favorite thing un-freaking constitutional!

Jebbie now wants to find a way to fund his vouchers privately. Well, he should check with these San Antonio families first. These parents from the privately funded (by major Frank Corte supporter James Leininger) voucher program in the Edgewood School District in San Antonio, also say vouchers are a failure. And they should know, they took them from Mr. Leininger. And they found their kids sinking even deeper into failure, and themselves sinking even further financially, for they had to transport their kids to schools themselves, they had to pay out of their pockets for tutoring that public schools furnished free, and they had to pay even more for after-school care that is offered at many public schools at a reduced rate.

Never mind that the Florida Supreme Court found that vouchers undermine public schools and violates Florida’s constitutional requirement of a uniform system of free public education..

Jebbie needs to check with Frank. Frank has come up with some doozie voucher-lite plans.

But what Larry Stallings wants you to consider is that there are some cheaper, more effective ways to improve public schools.

The Bushes and their boy, Frank Corte, need a rest from all this school fixin’ that ain't fixin' nuthin'. They need to let Little Larry have a crack at helpin’ fix the schools that need fixin’ in the Great State of Texas. And y’all need to elect him to HD 122 so he can do it.