Leaving D.C. Schoolchildren Behind

This week more than 1,000 recipients of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship gathered in the heart of Washington, D.C. Dressed in little plaid school uniforms, holding signs that read, “Options = Power” and “My voucher is my future,” they sang, cheered, and chanted within sight of the Capitol where their futures will be decided.

The pint-sized activists could be politically problematic for Barack Obama–adorable harbingers of doom for an administration trying to navigate between its message of promised education reform and its allegiance to the teachers’ unions, which vehemently oppose the Opportunity Scholarship.