http://hispanicpundit.com/2004/11/18/the-effects-of-school-choice-in-india/ Thu, 17 May 2012 08:37:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 http://hispanicpundit.com/2004/11/18/the-effects-of-school-choice-in-india/#comment-66357 Hispanic Pundit » Why Rehnquist Was Good For Minorities Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:02:08 +0000 http://hispanicpundit.com/2004/11/18/the-effects-of-school-choice-in-india/#comment-66357 [...] So what Rehnquist did, not just by being a deciding vote in a very critical case, but by being the most instrumental justice in that case, was to start a revolution that could help more minorities than Brown, LBJ’s War On Poverty, and Clinton’s failed public school funding couldn’t even dream of achieving. Will vouchers live up to their expectations? We can’t tell for sure, but if the preliminary results are any indication (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here here here and here), we can already be sure that the next fifty years after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, are already going to be very different than the fifty years after Brown, and certainly the fifty years after Lyndon Johnson’s ‘war on poverty’ - legislation that did more harm than good - and certainly better than Bill Clinton’s more money for education. [...] […] So what Rehnquist did, not just by being a deciding vote in a very critical case, but by being the most instrumental justice in that case, was to start a revolution that could help more minorities than Brown, LBJ’s War On Poverty, and Clinton’s failed public school funding couldn’t even dream of achieving. Will vouchers live up to their expectations? We can’t tell for sure, but if the preliminary results are any indication (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here here here and here), we can already be sure that the next fifty years after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, are already going to be very different than the fifty years after Brown, and certainly the fifty years after Lyndon Johnson’s ‘war on poverty’ - legislation that did more harm than good - and certainly better than Bill Clinton’s more money for education. […]

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