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Senators in glass houses, throwing stones

Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) has been getting himself into the news a bit lately. His latest oops was a statement he made a few days ago about public schools in Washington D.C. “If you send a kid to school in D.C., chances are that they will end up in a gang rather than graduating.” The context of his statement was that DC schools are so bad that they should be forced by Congress (over local objections) to continue an experimental school voucher program that DeMint supports.

What DeMint failed to mention is that the graduation rate in DC is actually close to the national average at 70%, while DeMint’s state of South Carolina has the fourth lowest graduation rate in the nation, at less than 54%.

Thanks to Think Progress.

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This was written by Iron Knee. Posted on Saturday, March 7, 2009, at 4:32 pm. Filed under Hypocrisy. Tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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