Bush is using Katrina to push school vouchers.

[ulysses]

Color me surprised.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2005/sep/16/091609096.html

Sorry if this is a dupe.

[bettyellen]

1. and repealing estate taxes, etc, etc, etc.

[Robertwf]

2. B*** Aims to Destroy Teacher Unions

This is another effort to destroy the teachers' unions as well as destroy public education. He wants two classes--his rich class and those born to serve them.

[rodeodance]

3. Marg. Spellings says no.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/20050917/ts_latimes/bushcallsforcutstooffsetreliefplan
.......

Among Education Department proposals for relief is a plan to disburse as much as $488 million, up to $7,500 a child, to compensate families that enrolled children in private schools. (It proposes to reimburse K-12 public school districts that accept displaced students at the same rate, at a cost of about $1.9 billion.) In severely hit areas of Louisiana, about a third of K-12 students attend private schools, compared with 11% nationally.

"At this time, the most urgent need is to restore a sense of normalcy for the more than 300,000 students displaced by the storm," said National Education Assn. President Reg Weaver in a statement. "It is just simply not the time to open up a policy debate on vouchers."

The American Federation of Teachers opposed the proposal as well.

Education Secretary
Margaret Spellings defended the plan. "We are not provoking a voucher debate as much as trying to provide aid for these displaced families, whether they have been in public school or private school," she said.

[ulysses]

4. of course she does.

:eyes:

[ulysses]

5. just a little

:kick:

[ulysses]

6. no one else?

[guinivere]

7. He used 9/11

to start a war, Schiavo for the right to life - I am not surprised.

He will probably try to get as much mileage out of Katrina as he can.

[ulysses]

8. this is true.

We shouldn't be surprised. We should be pissed off anew.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Color me not surprised

Vouchers were at the top of bush's wish list back in 2000. That list also included a war in Iraq, 'reforming' social security and massive tax cuts. He won't get vouchers before 2008 and no way will his social security changes go through. So he is clinging to what he can, and this form of vouchers is better than nothing.

[jpgray]

10. NO/LA will be a playground for the removal of regulations they don't like

Prevailing wage is already on the block, but expect environmental and other labor regulations to fall by the wayside in the name of "aid" as well.