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Overhauling D.C. School Overcome by Violence
D.C. Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has dispatched a team of administrators and extra security to an Anacostia middle school where three teachers have been assaulted, a 14-year-old was charged with carrying a shotgun and students have run the hallways discharging fire extinguishers.

Interviews with teachers, parents, students and police paint a picture of a troubled school...

[ya think!?]
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OBAMA AND VOUCHERS
According to public opinion polls, 65 percent of adult African-Americans and 63 percent of adult Hispanics favor the use of school vouchers, as well they should: the number of minority students that are quitting the education system is staggering:

• In 2006 nearly 11 percent of African-American students between the ages of 16 and 24 dropped out of school.
• The dropout rate among Hispanics was 22 percent.
• Higher dropout rates also mean higher unemployment: in 2006, more than half of all African-American dropouts and more than one-third of Hispanic dropouts were not in the labor force.

Obama argues that voucher-based initiatives fund mostly faith-based schools, violating separation of church and state. But faith-based institutions may participate in voucher programs as a result of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, in which the Supreme Court ruled that students may study at any private or public school as long as aid is awarded directly to the parent or guardian and not the school.

[this is a {another} union problem - and their strangle hold on certain politicians - plain and simple]

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