The Journal's series on school choice

I was out of town when the Journal Sentinel published its massive series on school choice and am just now getting around to reading it. So far it strikes me as an excellent job of getting past the cant and presenting a picture of school choice that better reflects reality, both what works and what does not.

It was depressing, therefore, to read the letters in Sunday's paper. Most of them could have been written without ever reading the articles.

One in particular I found especially depressing--that from the local director of the ACLU. Particularly with the blindness of the current Washington administration towards the need for civil liberties and due process, there is a growing need for a credible ACLU. By getting involved in controversies so far from its core mission, the ACLU squanders its credibility and makes itself easy to ignore.