Democrats are throwing kids under the school bus and here's why

Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania is the among the Democrats who are putting teachers unions ahead of the needs of children by refusing to back school choice programs.

Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. His latest book is "Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Devouring Our Economy."

But there's a force far more powerful in politics than Shapiro's convictions, such as they are. And that force is the teachers unions. They put on a full-court press to stop the roughly 10,000 vouchers for the poorest kids in Pennsylvania's worst school districts even though the state budget bill gave billions more for the public schools.

It didn't matter that this voucher program comprised less than 0.5% of state spending. The union brass commanded Democrats to vote no on even a single penny going to schools that work.