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“The union had persuaded March Fong Eu, the CTA-endorsed secretary of state, to alter the proposition’s heading on the ballot from PARENTAL CHOICE to EDUCATION
by awinder 8y ago
“The union had persuaded March Fong Eu, the CTA-endorsed secretary of state, to alter the proposition’s heading on the ballot from PARENTAL CHOICE to EDUCATION VOUCHERS—a change in wording that cost Prop. 174 ten points in the polls.”
Those devious villians, forming a cabal to change the name of the proposition to accurately reflect what effect it was to have!
- cm2012 8y agoBoth headlines are factually accurate.
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- akiselev 8y agoThen the supporters of the proposition should have no issue with the change in title. They are only insterested in an honest accounting on the merits of their beleifs, right?
- gojomo 8y agoAnd vice-versa: if both are accurate, the CTA opponents should have been fine with the submitted title. Because they, too, only care about an honest hearing, right?
- geezerjay 8y ago> Both headlines are factually accurate. "Parental choice" is however uninformative (speaks of the perceived results and not the action about to be voted), highly subjective, and without any meaningful information.
- gojomo 8y ago‘Parental choice’ isn’t at all a ‘subjective’ result of such voucher programs. It’s both the intended and actual effect wherever such programs are offered. Parents wind up sending children to different schools than they would have otherwise attended, in accordance with the parents’ choice. Even the CTA opposition to the proposition implicitly conceded that, because they predicted doom for public schools after many children left for other schools. If after the proposition passes, children are going to new, different schools – parental choice will have undeniably been exercised.
- Gibbon1 8y agoThose absolute bastards!
- conanbatt 8y agoUnions protesting a prospective policy is the same signal as as a behemoth suing a small startup that encroaches their space: they know vouchers would wreck their monopoly more than anyone else, so they need to stop it before it begins. If you are unsure if vouchers are a good policy, that unions protest so hard against them should put you at ease that they work.