the housing/education choice (for the wealthy)

Many people get around the poor quality of many government schools by purchasing expensive homes. By increasing the "quality" of their neighborhood and their neighbors, they can increase the quality of their government education experience.

That's what Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is doing. It avoids the outright hypocrisy of those who send their kids to private schools while opposing "School Choice" legislation. But it's a cousin of the same garbage.

Here are the WSJ editorialists with the details:

Washington, D.C.'s school voucher program for low-income kids isn't dead yet. But the Obama Administration seems awfully eager to expedite its demise....why is Education Secretary Arne Duncan proceeding as if the program's demise is a fait accompli?

Mr. Duncan is not only preventing new scholarships from being awarded but also rescinding scholarship offers that were made to children admitted for next year. In effect, he wants to end a successful program before Congress has an opportunity to consider reauthorizing it. This is not what you'd expect from an education reformer, and several Democrats in Congress have written him to protest....

After detailing the private school choice of many...

Less well known is that Mr. Duncan has exercised another, far more common kind of school choice for his family.

Science magazine recently asked Mr. Duncan where his daughter attends school and "how important was the school district in your decision about where to live?" He responded: "She goes to Arlington [Virginia] public schools. That was why we chose where we live, it was the determining factor...I didn't want to try to save the country's children and our educational system and jeopardize my own children's education." It certainly is easier to champion public schools when you have your pick of the better ones (like the Duncans) or the means to send your children to a private school (like the Obamas)....