School Choice proponent Blasts Walker for Lifting Income Cap, a Gift to wealthy families.

Dr. Howard Fuller, the “longtime school choice advocate … called out Gov. Walker's budget proposal for "hijacking" the choice program.

He basically unloaded on Walker’s extreme free market move to educate our kids, while handing a huge gift to wealthy parents. The removal of the choice income cap will crowd out what Republicans have been describing as a ticket out for inner city schools kids in bad schools, or at least that’s what they’ve been telling us for years. I knew it was bullshit.

This I would have paid good money to see:

Wispolitics: Fuller said the most egregious provision of the choice program budget proposal is the elimination of an income eligibility requirement. "I never got into this to give someone like me $6,500 to send their kid to Marquette High School," he said. "This is where I get off the train," Fuller said. "I'm not going to go anywhere in America and fight for a program that subsidizes rich people." 

Fuller is suggesting that income eligibility for choice schools be tied to BadgerCare eligibility. He said that would make about 80 percent of the Milwaukee population eligible for the program. 

"It's so outrageous what he's talking about doing," Fuller said of Walker's proposal.
Fuller supports lifting the enrollment cap as Walker has proposed, but he said it must be coupled with measures to ensure students are achieving in the schools … should take the Wisconsin Knowledge Concepts Examination. 

"I will fight this with everything I have," Fuller told Sen. Glenn Grothman. "I did not fight all these years for a program to give a subsidy to rich people. We shouldn't have an America where only people with money have a choice."

I can see why even choice opponents have a healthy respect for Fuller. What he didn’t anticipate was the ulterior motive behind GOP support. But then, that’s what liberals have been shouting at the top of our voice for years.