The House just voted

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Congress passes the laws. They passed 'Reagans' laws.

Point taken but much of what Reagan did required no legislation. It was done by policy decisions and directives from within government departments.

Please, please, please, close down Cleveland public schools. Please. Throwing money at them doesn't work.

Just throwing money at a problem never works but there's no reason why we can't make our public schools the envy of the world, just as they were in the '50s, '60s & '70s.

And I'm curious about these 'Christian madrases' you're referring to. I've heard of Christian schools, where the kids actually learn to read and write, but the only madrases I've heard of lately was Obamas

Yes, they learn to read and write but they're also given religious education. In some cases that religious education gets pretty crazy. Think of the nuttiest stuff you've heard from the religious right and be assured that same stuff and worse is being crammed into the heads of children somewhere.

John