Boehner Will Try and Bring Back DC's Voucher System

Tonight John Boehner will have a number of special guests in the Speaker's box, many of whom are students or parents involved in the DC Voucher program that Obama killed shortly after becoming president.  Obama's actions showed how tied he is to the teacher's unions which oppose any sort of education reform that actually promotes smarter kids.

Boehner plans to do more than just show off his guests (from the Daily Caller):

John Boehner to resuscitate D.C.'s school voucher program -- One of Obama's first moves as president was to look the other way while Congressional Democrats eviscerated a voucher program intended to lift D.C. kids out of poverty. "Democrats pushed successfully in the previous Congress to prevent re-authorization of the program, which provides up to $7,500 yearly toward tuition in private schools, including religious schools," writes the Washington Post's Mike Debonis. "As a compromise, legislators approved an Obama proposal to allow about 1,700 children then currently receiving vouchers to continue through high school. But no new students have were admitted to the program for the 2009 and 2010 school years." But there's light yet: Shortly after Obama's SOTU address, Speaker John Boehner will put the president's promises of bipartisanship to the test: "If the president is sincere about working together on education reform," reads a letter from Boehner's office, "we should start by saving this successful, bipartisan program that has helped so many underprivileged children get a quality education." Surely the president wants Sasha and Malia, who attend the premier private school Sidwell Friends, to see how the other half lives? 

It's a relatively inexpensive program that has helped raise hundreds of kids out of poor DC schools and enable them to get quality educations. It's a model that should be repeated throughout the country.