At yesterday's congressional hearing on education in the nation's capital, Sen. Richard Durbin, long among the most strident opponents of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, signaled his possible willingness to help reauthorize the program. The WSJ comments here.
It's entirely too soon to tell how this will play out, but this was a major step in the right direction. It seems as though the program's supporters' stepped-up??advocacy efforts are starting to pay off.