Quick morning updates
The Virginia legislature is back in Richmond today for a special session. While originally called to deal with a Supreme Court opinion dealing with evidence in legal cases, the Governor has now announced a further budget shortfall and the need for more than $1 billion in budget cuts.
More tributes to Mrs. Rose Friedman, a tireless school choice and freedom advocate, who passed away yesterday.
And an interesting article in the Washington Times, “Don’t look for the union label.”
Maybe there can be too much of a good thing. That appears to be the lesson to take from two kinds of school choice — charter schools and education voucher programs — that have enjoyed increasing success in recent years. As voucher programs come of age and charter schools proliferate, they are both threatened by the tedious mandates and workplace rules they were created to circumvent.
And the implacable enemies of school choice, teacher unions, have supporters between a rock and hard place. They say they will give up their old hostility, but there’s a catch: First schools must be unionized and regulated by government.
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