President Obama is proposing a measure today to slowly kill the D.C. school voucher program by attrition. Because the liberal National Education Association wants Congress to immediately kill the program, the Washington Post's Bill Turque and Shailagh Murray hailed Obama's plan as "an attempt to navigate a middle way on a contentious issue."
Phasing out the program affords no long-term way to assess the benefits of the voucher program, and killing the program by attrition means Obama might dodge criticism from African-American supporters who are pro-voucher. After all, he's moderate on the issue compared to liberals who want to dump the program straight away.
But "navigat[ing] a middle way" seems like Obama PR, not objective reporting.
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