60 years after George Wallace pushed segregation, Dems block the...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : School-choice programs that let education dollars follow the kids have expanded to more than a dozen states this year, boosted by their success in Florida and Arizona where parents can send their kids to charter schools, Catholic schools, math and science schools, exceptional-student-services programs or whatever meets the specific needs of their children.
52% : And instead of draining public schools of funds, per-child spending in public schools has risen when parents exercise their school-choice options.
52% : Most charter schools and voucher schools are color-blind on admissions.
50% : Across the country, there are hundreds of public schools where a majority of black and Hispanic children are not reading or doing math at grade-level proficiency.
15% : Even worse, New York's Democratic lawmakers at the behest of the United Federation of Teachers essentially banned new charter schools in Harlem's District 5 (whose charters are already oversubscribed) and maintained strict limits on charter schools elsewhere.

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