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Sat 24 Apr, 2004 11:50 am
while the school voucher plan (previously voted down by colorado citizens) and ressurected by the colorado senate was defeated yestersday by a vote of 33-32 the deciding vote came from republican Mark Cloer saying "It's not my desire to put private schools, especially religious ones under further state control." the republican dominated senate immediately lebeled Cloer "a democrat"--fighting words from the GOP side of the House. The voters said no, the courts said no and now the legislature said no, most likely the GOP colorado house will be back next year with another proposal regardless of what the citizens have said.
Since Colorado has a history of the Republicam House voting against state initiatives, I wonder how many other States have denied or attempted to overturn voter initiatives?
When an intitiative is voted for by citizens of the state, shouldn't the House respect the will of the people who voted them into office?
I don't at all like the political shenannagians involved in bringing this one back to life, but I am supportive of the concept. I would love to see a state adopt the plan, and stay with it long enough we can finally see if it hurts or helps.
Me too Roger. Most opponents of school voucher programs fall into one or both of two camps:
1) Those who oppose tax money going to faith based schools
2) Those who believe vouchers would undercut the already financially strapped public schools.
But if the end goal is to educate children, I think neither should be a problem. If kids are getting a top notch education, who cares if the teaches are nuns or druids or whatever? And faced with a loss in enrollment and net loss of allocations, its a no brainer that the public schools would clean up their act and compete.
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