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Few organizations are as consistently liberal as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), especially when it comes to matters of church and state. The ADL devotes an entire page on its Web site (www.adl.org) to church-state separation and wants the "wall" between the two to remain as high and impenetrable as possible, believing that to lower it would have a negative effect on both.
Which makes it remarkable that the executive committee of ADL's Philadelphia chapter has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution endorsing vouchers that would allow children in underperforming schools in poor neighborhoods to escape to schools that...
A Crack in the School-Choice Dike?
Inner city schools have to be one of the worst possible places to teach. You have most students believing that success means you are white. You are ridiculed and even threatened with violence. In some cases, you can be killed.
Sending kids with vouchers to more productive schools will help, but the real problem is systemic. Not just the unions. You have administrators (Superintendents, Asst....