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Education of choice, it was milton friedman that first introduced the idea of vouchers? >> in the last year or two, 13 states passed voucher programs in the last two years, some more happened today in arizona. couple weeks in louisiana and indiana, there is million kids eligible. >> louisiana now allows students statewide to get a voucher if they are enrolled in public schools graded "c", "d" or "f". so they are not vouchers for everybody. in indiana you get a voucher worth $4500 which is fracti...

Folks graduating with a symbol, you have to address that. >> john: we get more social stratification under the government monopoly system you are assigned by a zip code. if you live in a rich neighborhood, odds are its a better school. >> exactly. not only do voucher programs break that down in getting kids into more integrated schools. there is academic evidence papers published showing civic virtues of children that take advantage of that take advantage of that. >> john: meaning? >> more poll ...

Think this opens up a broader question and that is who is in control of the schools? and who are the schools designed to -- whose needs are the schools designed to meet? and obviously, i think the answer is parents. and so the legislature there said look at, were going to put the parents in control. allow the parents to decide what is best for their children. and so that is what is going to be happening in new hampshire. >> yeah. its kind of a sad commentary, though, because, you know, i love al...

Collective bargain. they want to cut their health care and pension and run people out of the profession about ten years of being in because teachers get sick of the damn thing. the school voucher legislation was signed into law in the state of indiana. explain the downside of these voucher programs. >> look, parents have a right to send their kids to the schools it that they want to send their kids to, and i dont begrudge any parent that wants to send a child to a religious school to have that r...

Out of the profession about ten years of being in because teachers get sick of the damn thing. the school voucher legislation was signed into law in the state of indiana. explain the downside of these voucher programs. >> look, parents have a right to send their kids to the schools it that they want to send their kids to, and i dont begrudge any parent that wants to send a child to a religious school to have that right to do so. >> the downside of the voucher program is? >> the downside is in a ...

For seniors. thats the simple facts. if you dont like it, vote no. >> you know that the ryan plan transforms it to put market forces in there. i know you dont like it. >> what does transform it mean? >> what it does, takes it to voucher programs -- by the way were talking about people under 55 years old. medicare we know will not exist because it is a path to go broke. soap you have to make some changes and i welcome the president to the table. remember it was the president and you democrats who...

Sends to local governments plus hes going to reduce the amount of money they send to school districts but at the same time that he makes the cuts in education, statewide hes going to increase voucher programs. >> they say hes going to lower the deficit by 90%. i thought it would have to be 100%. well have to see. whats hanging in the balance and by the way, he had to scream over people that were yelling. >> and beating the drum. >> and beating the drum. crazy situation. one thing about governor ...

Its not even close. >> this week, four states passed bills encouraging charter schools. south carolina, mississippi, indiana and new jersey, all considering voucher programs allowing students to attend charter and in some cases, private or parochial schools at public expense. a move many fear will drain money from public schools. >> in a time when president obama says we need to experiment, we need to learn from our past experiences, we really have yet to learn whether those experiments with cha...

Fought for race to the top dollars. the same people who want this coverage opposed race to the top dollars money that could have been spent on education. many of my constituents have called. theres been a lot of news about it on talk radio here in milwaukee. a lot of people are disturbed that this is the priority. again, the question is, how does this help educate the children in the city of milwaukee and the state of wisconsin for that matter? >> greta: is the teachers union just as aggressive ...

Fought for race to the top dollars. the same people who want this coverage opposed race to the top dollars money that could have been spent on education. many of my constituents have called. theres been a lot of news about it on talk radio here in milwaukee. a lot of people are disturbed that this is the priority. again, the question is, how does this help educate the children in the city of milwaukee and the state of wisconsin for that matter? >> greta: is the teachers union just as aggressive ...