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<p>While I can’t disagree with the potential of a new threat, the Milwaukee program has resisted challenges from the moment it started in 1990. The NEA and their hired academic goons have tried *everything *possible all the way to State Supreme Court in Wisconsin from the US Supreme Court. It is extremely farfetched that the federal arm of the US will try to curtail he state rights of Wisconsin, and it is equally hard to believe that a more liberal Supreme Court would reopen the Milwaukee case. In the meantime, the program has not only survived those challenges but has been to expand to include religious schools continue to increase in size. </p>
<p>It is indeed kryptonite to very established special interests … the special interest that not only want to preserve the quasi-monopoly of government-run schools but insist on the ERADICATION of all other types of school. The sad reality is that publicly funded government AND private schools can function at the same time and achieve better results FOR the citizens. </p>
<p>The fear that a public system of education would disappear because of a libertarian assault is ridiculous. Just as ridiculous as the continuous support for a monopoly in education. </p>
<p>Would the United States consider a national airline for all our transportation needs? Oh well, that might be a wrong question in 2009! :)</p>
<p>PS For full disclosure, the study by Greene has been challenged in the same way as Greene attacked the previous reports by Witte and others.</p>