http://educationnext.org/credits-crunched/ Education Next is a journal of opinion and research about education policy. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:56:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://educationnext.org/credits-crunched/comment-page-1/#comment-638 RW Kistner Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:42:18 +0000 http://content.hks.harvard.edu/educationnext/?p=49626455#comment-638 West ignores the salient fact that the original spirit of the legislation was to enable students from poor families--not students from middle or upper class families with strong religious affiliations--to have choice. It is this piece, not the recent rulings of the courts, that is politically motivated. Evidently, West cares more about the ideology of choice based reform than he does about the principle of creating a level playing field for all students--and cares not a wit about the way the law has been abused. West ignores the salient fact that the original spirit of the legislation was to enable students from poor families–not students from middle or upper class families with strong religious affiliations–to have choice. It is this piece, not the recent rulings of the courts, that is politically motivated. Evidently, West cares more about the ideology of choice based reform than he does about the principle of creating a level playing field for all students–and cares not a wit about the way the law has been abused.

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