Frank Riggs: “I just want to alert my colleagues that tomorrow the House will vote on a bill that represents the best chance that…”

“I just want to alert my colleagues that tomorrow the House will vote on a bill that represents the best chance that thousands of District of Columbia parents will have all year to see real hope in their lives. The bill, which will be offered by majority leader Dick Armey is the D.C. Student Opportunity Scholarship Act, which the Senate has already passed. This is very modest legislation, but it would give low-income parents a scholarship up to $3,200 so that they could select the school and the education that is most appropriate and best suited for their children. It would give D.C. parents an option of sending their children to a school where real learning takes place, where standards of discipline are enforced and their kids will be safe. But the liberal Democrats who say they care passionately about public education are adamantly opposed to this bill and ironic it is that these liberals who would not accept for one second having their own children in these dangerous, dysfunctional schools stand in the way of District of Columbia parents having the choice to send their children to a school that performs and is safe. This is hypocrisy at its worst, and the Washington, D.C. parents who desperately want to give their kids a real chance in life know it. It is time to give choice a chance, because when parents have the choice, their children have a chance.”