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Washington’s public schools have for decades spent more per student than any other public school system in the country while producing the fewest graduates who have learned the skills essential for college and careers. But five years ago, Congress and the Bush administration threw a lifeline to thousands of D.C. parents and students with the Opportunity Scholarship program. Opportunity Scholarship recipients must be from low-income families and can use the scholarship to attend the school of their choice. The program routinely has many more applicants than available scholarships because so many parents and students are desperate for alternatives. Now along comes the District’s congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, who vows to end a program that is a godsend for more than 1,900 economically disadvantaged D.C. students. Norton is putting liberal ideology and the interests of the public school unions ahead of the wishes of parents and the needs of children.

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