This Week's Recipient of the Jimmy Carter Prize...

This week's recipient of the Jimmy Carter Prize for the Advancement of Douchebaggery goes to anyone who supports the Obama Administration's Omnibus spending package that is now under consideration in the the House.

Specifically, it contains language that will lead to the elimination of the D.C Opportunity Scholarship Program, a program that has allows 1,700 low-income, mostly African-American students to attend quality private schools. Ending the program would force them to return to Washington DC's notoriously horrible and dangerous public schools. Not only do these schools produce some of the lowest test scores and highest drop out rate in the nation, but at $14,000 per student they have one of the highest percapita budget's of any urban school system.

What makes this all the more repulsive is that this $14 million program is being cut in the context of the nearly $1 billion dollar increase in funding to the Department of Education. So, we know that the reasons are not budgetary, they are political. I am quite certain that this stems from the unparalleled influence that the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, America's largest teacher's unions, hold over the Democratic Party via their very large campaign contributions ($2,2261,056 & $2,797,335)

Don't listen to me; I am just a grumpy white male. Listen to the heartfelt pleas to Obama, to save the program, that recipients of the scholarship made in the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKzZJoPu1OQ

Take note Mr.Obama; if you do not positively respond to their petitions, you will be added to the ranks of this week's winners of The Jimmy Carter Prize for the Advancement of Douchebaggery.
http://www.heritage.org/research/education/ednotes114.cfm

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2009/02/special-interests-to-listen-ca.html