Norton Blasts Cruz for Launching Extreme Assault on D.C.'s Local Education System

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"Senator Cruz's bill is one of the most radical and blatant attacks on D.C. home rule and local control that we have witnessed, showing how easily his ambitions for the presidency allow him to dump his self-proclaimed principles of local control over local affairs," Norton said. "Who is Ted Cruz to tell the D.C. government how to spend their own taxpayer funds on education, a great priority in this city? It is one thing for the federal government to meddle with D.C.'s local affairs and set up a private school voucher program with federal funds; it is quite another to force a local jurisdiction to use its own finite funds to pay for an unaccountable voucher program, taking away funding from our traditional public schools and public charter schools. Unless there are a lot of Republicans who are anxious to nurture Cruz's presidential ambitions, I believe I will have allies as I go all out to defeat Cruz's latest anti-local government bill and see that it goes nowhere."

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