October 5, 2015

John Boehner, friend of disadvantaged D.C. students

(Paul Mirengoff) John Boehner has received plenty of criticism from conservatives over his handling of the House Speakership, and some of it is deserved. But here's a little known accomplishment of Boehner's for which, I think, he deserves considerable credit: he created and kept alive a private school voucher program for the District of Columbia public schools. Through Boehner's D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, 6,252 low-income District students have gone to parochial or

Source: Power Line