Barack Obama & the DC School Voucher Program

Reason Magazine by Nick Gillespie | May. 5, 2009 (Special Report)

(Video) Mercedes Campbell is one of the 1,700 students in the Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a school-voucher program authorized by Congress in 2004. The program gives students up to $7,500 to attend whatever school their parents choose. For kids like Mercedes, who now attends Georgetown Visitation Prep, the DC voucher program is a way out of one of the worst school districts in the country. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - May. 5, 2009

The one-sided political video looks like a marketing video from proponents of school vouchers. The plethora of social issues are ignored to focus on disappointments of those who received vouchers that are now being discontinued. Reason TV self-identifies as a proponent of libertarian philosophy.

This is advocacy, not journalism.

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