Comments on: Op-Ed by David Storobin: Ms. Quinn, now you see why I support School Vouchers?

By: yehoshuabedrick

yehoshuabedrick — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:42:29 +0000

#6, That’s not quite accurate.

1) I can’t speak to whether NYC’s City Coucil has that power, but it could probably give vouchers for the portion that it pays into the school system.

2) The Institute for Justice explains how a voucher program would NOT violate NY’s Blaine Amendment based on precedent: http://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/school_choice/50statereport/50stateSCreport.pdf

By: yehoshuabedrick

yehoshuabedrick — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:35:53 +0000

#1 is completely incorrect. There are voucher programs operating in several states and the U.S. Supreme Court (Zelman v. Simmons-Harris) and several state courts (most recently Indiana) have UPHELD voucher programs.

Moreover, while a few voucher programs have been struck down (though again, most were upheld), scholarship tax credit programs have a perfect record in the U.S. Supreme Court and every state supreme court to address the issue. There are scholarship tax credit programs operating in 12 states.

By: getzel1

getzel1 — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 06:34:07 +0000

Talking like a politician during campaining.

By: mariner

mariner — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 05:38:11 +0000

CharlieHall, there is a 3rd possibility. That he knows it is a State issue, which he does, as he is the ONLY one to ever put in for the amendment to be abolished that stops school vouchers. He also knows that Albany is more or less controlled by NYC’s elected State representatives. Upstate wants the vouchers, NYC residents need to be introduced to it, and as a City Councilman, David will start the long for needed conversation of ripping out the UFT Union from a school system that fails it’s kids.

As for ny100k, courts have UPHELD school vouchers from Cleveland to Milwaukee. in places where they were struck down, it was because of the wording of the law, not the essence of it.

By: Eli51

Eli51 — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 04:44:43 +0000

Remember if Chaim Deutsch gets past the Primary he will be facing David Strobin in the General Election. Chaim Deutsch understands the frum community more than David Strobin especially with the issue of getting funding for Yeshivos as Chaim Deutsch sent his children to Yeshiva & as far as I know Storobin never sent his kids to Yeshiva.

By: charliehall

charliehall — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:10:34 +0000

There are two possibilities here:

1) Storobin knows that the New York City Council has absolutely no power to create a school voucher program, and is therefore assuming that the voters in his district are ignoramuses and will vote for a candidate who will promise the sun, moon, and stars even though he can’t deliver anything.

2) Storobin doesn’t know that to create a voucher system requires an amendment to the New York State Constitution, and that the New York City Council has absolutely no role to play in that, in which case he is asking voters to elect an ignoramus to the City Council.

I don’t know which is worse.

By: TzViD

TzViD — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 02:57:59 +0000

David Storobin is correct. Parents need to have options to send their children to the schools they choose- such as good Yeshivas instead of the public schools most of which are shaken down by unions. Spend money for the children and not for lazy union workers.

By: laytzonay hador omrim

laytzonay hador omrim — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 02:39:04 +0000

He speaks the truth

By: yaakov doe

yaakov doe — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 02:31:58 +0000

Quite a stretch from a failure in the EMS system to school vouchers. As many politicians do, Storobin panders to the community and in his race for State Senate tried to pass himself of as an observant Jew.

As a lawyer who served 11 days in the State Senate he should realize that City Council has no role in setting policy on school vouchers, and there are constitutional issues as well.

By: ChaimShamayim

ChaimShamayim — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 02:27:11 +0000

Right on – looking forward to Obamacare