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Utah shuts out school choice

The bad news from last night...Utah rejected school vouchers:

Voters decisively rejected the will of the Utah Legislature and governor Tuesday, defeating what would have been the nation's most comprehensive education voucher program in a referendum blowout.
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More than 60 percent of voters were rejecting vouchers, with about 95 percent of the precincts reporting, according to unofficial results. The referendum failed in every county, including the conservative bastion of Utah County.

Voucher supporter Overstock.com chief executive Patrick Byrne - who bankrolled the voucher effort - called the referendum a "statewide IQ test" that Utahns failed.

"They don't care enough about their kids. They care an awful lot about this system, this bureaucracy, but they don't care enough about their kids to think outside the box," Byrne said.

The opposition to the vouchers spent $4.4 million to defeat the referendum. Fund came from the NEA and other teachers unions around the nation.

Comments

Jason,

While I agree the results are disappointing, I'm not sure that Byrne's rhetoric helps the cause at all.

There is such a thing as being a gracious loser in politics.

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