-By Israel Teitelbaum
Please call your Congressman and Senators (202-224-3121) and urge them to save the Washington, DC school vouchers.
While you have them on the phone, please urge them to sponsor the Civil Rights Act for Equal Educational Opportunity (CRA for EEO).
This will mandate equitable funding for children in nonpublic schools, while respecting the liberty of schools in hiring and provision of services. In accordance with the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, academic standards and means of funding would be left to the states.
Points to Ponder
- School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st Century.
- Denial of parental choice in education is the greatest government-sanctioned violation of civil rights in today’s America.
- The CRA for EEO will fulfill that which was left out of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when our nation committed to equal opportunity in housing, employment and public accommodations.
- The CRA for EEO will provide improved opportunities for every child, promote educational quality by force of competition and bring down costs.
Please go to Vouchers vs the District With More Money than God at the Cato Institute.
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Israel Teitelbaum is currently creating a new school choice organization to help further the efforts to improve our public schools. His blog will soon be up and running at SchoolChoiceVoter.org. Mr. Teitelbaum can be reached at israel@schoolchoicenj.org.
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