A new, Republican-heavier Congress could mean new life for the Washington, D.C., voucher program that was allowed to expire in 2009. But, as Alyson Klein reports in Education Week, the ?traditional opponents of vouchers? are preparing for battle. For example the National Education Association's manager of federal advocacy, Mary Kusler, told Klein that ?now doesn't seem to be the time to be diverting scarce taxpayer dollars away from public education towards private schools.?
?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow