2008 California Election Forum

Members of the National School Board Association booed U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

Why? She advocated school choice for parents.

In the next issue, we will talk about Utah’s upcoming voucher system, which will provide every Utah parent with school-age children a voucher worth from $500 to $3,000 based on family income, redeemable at any eligible private school.

“I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way. This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy...

“What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told them that when they came in they couldn’t get rid of people that they thought weren’t any good?”

—Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc.