(schoolsmatter.blogspot.com, April 25, 2011, The New Voucher Reality, Brought to You by Those Who View Public Institutions as the New Red Menace)

This article discussed Betsy DeVos and her plan to change American education. According to the article, Betsy DeVos, an advocate of the use of vouchers, has helped push for votes for a voucher bill in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, Utah, Iowa, and New Jersey. Her plan is to create a system of education where the government would pay for students to attend private schools that would teach creationism and contradict the Constitutional principle of the separation of church and state in schools. Obviously, since these schools are private they are not unconstitutional and are not in violation of this amendment. The article also mentioned the most alarming fact, which is that this is receiving nearly no attention from the media. In the author's view, voucher bills are part of a larger attack on the public sector and unions. According to the article, DeVos's plan has almost come to "fruitation" because of the flooding of voucher bills into state legislatures across the country.

This article relates directly to our class because of our discussion on privatization of schools and whether or not vouchers are a good idea. I agree with the author that vouchers are a bad idea. While the students who get the vouchers may receive a better education, if the government is funding the vouchers less money goes to the students who did not receive the voucher. These students will be disadvantaged. Also, those students who do receive the voucher will have right-winged curriculum pushed upon them whether or not they are willing. It is impossible to tell what view that the author comes from because they do not discuss their personal beliefs, besides that they are against the voucher bills. However, based on the fact that he is against the attacks on the unions in Wisconsin, he is probably a Democrat.