Unschooled Hillary
Sen. Clinton warns against vouchers going to the “School of the Jihad.”

By Dan Lips

The Clintons have a history of opposing school-choice initiatives, but Sen. Hillary Clinton’s recent attack on school vouchers ratcheted up already overheated rhetoric and at least temporarily halted her makeover as a moderate.

In 1998, in a classic do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do maneuver, President Clinton vetoed legislation to provide school vouchers to low-income families in Washington, D.C., even as he pulled his own daughter from the city’s troubled public-school system. The Clintons enrolled Chelsea in the elite Sidwell Friends school, but justified withholding school choice from other D.C. residents by claiming it would jeopardize the health of the entire public school system.

Sen. Clinton recently offered an even more specious justification for denying school choice to children trapped in failing public schools. In a speech in the South Bronx, Sen. Clinton argued that giving parents scholarships to send their children to any school of their choice would lead to children attending "the school of the White Supremacist." The former First Lady continued: "So what if the next parent comes and says, I want to send my child to the School of Jihad? I won’t stand for it."

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