Dear Dennis,

You have been working overtime to ensure a permanent end to the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, a program offering 1,700 children in Washington, DC a chance to escape their failing schools and receive a world-class education. Your staff has visited Congress, written letters and threatened future political support. You have ignored the tangible success of the program. Why? How do the choices of 1,700 students undermine what education is supposed to do for kids in the U.S.?

Ed Reform

Dear Dennis,

You must be exhausted after all of your hard fought battles to block quality public school choices for children all across the country. You seemed to be everywhere at once this past year. In Rhode Island and Tennessee you scrapped with state legislators to place even more obstacles in the way of charter school growth. In Oregon you helped ensure that virtual schooling would not be an option for more parents by asking your friends to place a moratorium on this wildly popular alternative for families. And in Maine you helped legislators see the error of their ever thinking that charters should be allowed to enter the landscape. All of this even after you convinced the President and Secretary Duncan that you are open to reform? How does your rhetoric line up with your actions? Why are you so worried about the decisions parents will make when given a choice? Perhaps the Secretary will take the opportunity to bring some of this up when he addresses your union leadership this morning.

Ed Reformer