Another Victory for Unions, Another Loss for Kids

In an excellent commentary Juan Williams, an NPR Sr. Correspondent, discusses the dismantling of the Washington, D.C. voucher program. One of the best examples that vouchers can work, the decision to stop the program came from the very top--the feds.

Who is served by this move? No one except the unions who want to see vouchers fail. What better way to see them fail than to stop the most successful program out there. If there are no working examples, then there is less evidence to support the fact that vouchers can help kids that need a way out of failing non-charter, non-voucher public schools.

Once again, we see that teachers unions are united for teachers, not for students.