I just do not think there is a rational reason to terminate this program.
This happens to be the D.C. related committee.
The 9/11 Commission said that one of the causes of September 11, 2001, was a failure of imagination.
I would urge you to go forward and pursue it.
There is no question that we have failed as a country to describe what risk we are willing to accept.
I think it raises big hopes in the hearts and minds of the parents and the children who are involved in that program.
Now, thank God, we have gone 8 years, and we have not suffered another attack on our territory, so that hopefully means that we have done so...
I say that with regret, because I wanted to hear both sides.
This does come down to individual lives and their ability to realize their God-given potential.
Thanks, Dr. Wolf. I agree it was less inspiring, but it was very important, and I thank you for that.
I find the sum total of this evidence to be very powerfully in favor of continuing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
This program is not only good for the students who get to make the choice with their parents of where they want to go, it is good for the sc...
the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program has become an issue around which there is a great national debate.
Together we are going to fight to keep this program doing.
I have opposed many voucher programs because they did take money from public schools, but that is not the case here.
I greatly appreciate your leadership on numerous issues of great importance to the District of Columbia, our Nation's capital, especially, I...
We wanted this hearing to be fair--a fair and open consideration of the pros and cons of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Pr...
I applaud, as this Committee does, the work of my successor, Mayor Adrian Fenty, and our chancellor, Michelle Rhee, in giving unprecedented ...
