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On April 21, 1998, America's paid off Senators got together to seriously consider the question of the benefits to parents and students of using a voucher system to allow children to escape the clutches of teacher union members in bad schools. These "respectable" Senators, mostly lawyers, used rhetoric more likely to produce campaign donations than produce legislation. The Senators long delayed addressing this issue, and embarrassed themselves when they did. The bill would create tax breaks for private school tuition and other education expenses. The Public School Teacher's Union, called the National Education Association, hates vouchers. Of course, their hate of the voucher or tax abatement scheme taken up by the Senate has no relation to the fact that a voucher system would create competition for students not enslaved to the Public School system and create a real need for public school teachers to start teaching or be without a job. To read about their altruistic beliefs, click here. To read a counter to the teacher union's arguments, by a simple mom who obviously doesn't know what's best for her children, click here.
The Senate debate did not go so far as a voucher system. It simply aimed to give some tax relief to parents who were paying taxes for public schools AND tuition to keep their children out of some pretty bad public schools. The debate centered about a bill to allow creating of savings accounts for children to meet costs of attending grade school or high school. Interest buildup and withdrawals would be tax-free, although the contributions of up to $2,000 a year would be taxed. This modest approach to some relief for parents taxed for poor education by public schools AND an opportunity to send their children to a better, safer and usually less costly private school would have also allowed expanded savings for college.
The Clinton administration, well paid by the National Educators Association. promised to veto the new measure because of its support for private, pre-collegiate education. The NEA is a big spender of the dues they extort from public school teachers. Teachers Unions' PAC's Gave $5.2 Million in '89-'90 Elections The teacher's Union is afraid of anything that even suggests a child can escape poor and dangerous public schools. Death for the child is better than having the child leave their Public Schools. And they pay to prevent anything that might look anything like giving parents and students some choice in their education. The National Education Association made investments in good government (i.e. gave money to politician's campaign funds) of $1,316,560 in the first six months of 1996. Senator Winston Bryant (D-Ark) was paid $15,000, and $10,000 went to three other Democratic Senators, Max Baucus (D-Mont), Tom Bruggere (D-Ore) and John Bryant (D-Texas). (Click on underlined politicians names to send them email). Only Baucus was able to turn his NEA money into a seat. Three out of four candidates taking NEA's largest contributions lost! Something must be going right.
Democratic lawmakers are using the bill and a string of amendments to illustrate their obedience to the NEA demands. There are new elections coming up and they want to get their payoffs -- or "NEA investments in good government," whichever term suits you better. Democrats had earlier used parliamentary moves to stop the Senate from even talking about the bill -- a true example of how NEA donations can buy Democratic Senators basic beliefs in democracy.
Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., not getting any payoffs from the teacher's union was free to say, "Education belongs at the local level (and that Republicans wanted to allow) the parents who have the most to win or lose the opportunity to take their own money that they worked for and put it in their savings accounts.''
The idea that parents should have some ownership of even a single dime of their own "tax" money is appalling to the NEA and Democratic politicians. The Democratic "amendments" called for federal support of public school construction through interest subsidies for school bonds and the hiring of teachers from the Public School Union into poor areas by forgiving the Union members of their student loans.
The Senate rejected 56-41 an amendment by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., to kill the savings accounts and use the money to recruit teachers. (Click on the above link to contact the Senator.)
"It's the nation's public schools that need help,'' said Teddy, a product of private schools. With his privileged and narrow view of expensive private schools he proclaimed that the savings bill would mostly benefit wealthy families that can already afford to send children to private schools. Poor Teddy must still be on the bottle if he really doesn't know that private schools -- overwhelming -- are less expensive than public schools. It's not for religious believes that normal working protestant and jewish parents choose to send their kids to Catholic schools. It's affordable! Kennedy admitted he wanted to continue the less efficient public school union approach -- regardless of its cost to the taxpayers -- saying "Our (Democratic party) goal is to strengthen public schools, not abandon them.''
The Republican amendments (remember Republicans don't get money from the teacher unions) would convert about $11 billion in Education Department programs for the public schools into grants to states or school districts, permanently ban national tests and create incentives for merit pay and competency testing of teachers. (You can imagine how the public school teacher's union feels about competency tests.)
When the 102nd Congress passed its Education Bill, it was so outrageous that the official words used to describe that bill's giveaway to the teacher's union said, "the NEA was so opposed to the second major proposal made by the President that they would not even let a "compromise" shell of the proposal pass. This proposal would have given vouchers to low-income parents to send their children to any school they wished, including private schools. Poor students, many of whom would prefer to go to private schools but cannot afford to, would thus be given the same opportunities that wealthy students enjoy. Indeed, public school teachers themselves, most of whom are members of the NEA, value private schools highly, as is shown by the fact that they are twice as likely as other Americans to send their kids to private schools. Still, for selfish reasons, they were unwilling to support this proposal. The NEA has a stranglehold on our Nation's public schools, but it has little influence over many private schools. If poor students escaped to private schools, the NEA's influence would consequently decline." Click here to see the full SENATE RECORD VOTE ANALYSIS, 102d Congress, 2nd Session January 28, 1992, 5:32 p.m. Page S-507 Temp. Record , Vote No. 9 EDUCATION BILL Final Passage.
Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, accused Republican leaders of catering to their party's right wing. He said nothing about the Democrats catering to the wishes of their multimillion dollar campaign contributor. Tom may have forgotten about the money democrats get from the NEA. (Click on underlined politicians names to send them email).
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi agreed that conservatives would like the bill, "I think that a lot of conservatives feel very strongly about education, and are very supportive'' of the tax breaks and amendments. (Click on underlined politicians names to send them email).
The Christian Coalition and the National Center for Home Education, which supports home schooling, issued statements favoring the bill. Sen. Robert Torricelli, (believe it or not, a Democrat from N.J.), is a co-sponsor. Among those at a pro-bill rally Monday was Alveda C. King, niece of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King and a former Democratic lawmaker in Georgia. At least 100 black youngsters from a local religious school attended the rally favoring the tax breaks. "Our parents send us to these schools so we can get a better break than they had,'' said a teenager who attended the National Christian Academy in Fort Washington, Md. (Click on underlined politicians names to send them email).
No wonder the bought off Democratic Senators did not even want to discuss the bill!
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