It=20 shouldn't come as a surprise that the National Education = Association=20 (NEA), whose sole purpose for existence seems to be = kowtowing to the=20 country's liberal leadership, has lost touch with its = professional=20 base. But it appears that the silent majority of = conservative,=20 pro-family teachers is finally talking back. A group of = pro-life=20 delegates at the NEA's annual convention may have succeeded = in=20 staging a coup that could help reclaim the organization from = its=20 Democratic puppeteers. In debates this week, educators = offered=20 resolutions that urged the NEA to stop advocating abortion = for=20 teenage students. "Reproductive freedom" and "family = planning" are=20 political positions that thousands of members = overwhelmingly--and=20 now publicly--object to. As The Washington Times = reports,=20 more than one-fourth of the 30 speakers at yesterday's event = were=20 pro-lifers who asked their fellow delegates to apply the = same=20 tolerance and respect that they maintain toward = homosexuality to=20 religious views and the human rights of the unborn. How well = these=20 proposals will sit with the NEA's ranking members is not = known. What=20 is known is the desperate need to cut the group's financial = ties=20 with left-wing militants. Over ninety million dollars in = members'=20 dues go directly to political activities that promote issues = like=20 homosexuality and abortion. As educators ought to know, the = schools'=20 number one priority should be educating children, not = brainwashing=20 them with politically correct views.

Much=20 to the dismay of the aforementioned teacher's union, the = drive for=20 school vouchers is also gaining traction. President Bush = revived the=20 debate this week, couching D.C.'s bill in the language of = fairness.=20 "We cannot have a two-tiered education system in = America--one tier=20 for those who can afford a certain type of school and one = tier for=20 those who can't," he said. "This plan is an attempt to say = the=20 two-tiered deal is over with." That's especially good news = for=20 children of poor families in the nation's capital, who are = subjected=20 to one of the most expensive and, ironically, worst public = school=20 systems in America. D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, a recently=20 re-elected Democrat, joined the president in support of a = voucher=20 program that would help kids from poor families escape the = failing=20 public schools. A new bill in Congress that works in tandem = with=20 that effort would give students from low-income families = vouchers=20 worth up to $11,000 to use for private school tuition. Look = for=20 several states to follow suit as study after study shows = America's=20 school children falling behind their peers in other = countries and=20 high school drop-out rates at an all-time high. We applaud = the work=20 of the administration and parents across the country who are = doing=20 all they can to resurrect school choice. =

It=20 looks like a court of appeals in the Bible belt is ordering = Judge=20 Roy Moore to buckle under. Anyone who has followed the Ten=20 Commandments crusader understands what a tall order that is. = Since=20 he was elected, Judge Moore has crusaded for the right to = display=20 the Ten Commandments in public. Now his granite sculpture of = the=20 Decalogue is in jeopardy. All because a federal court has = issued its=20 own commandment: Thou Shalt Remove Thy Monument from the = Courthouse.=20 Judge Moore vows to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme = Court,=20 undeterred by the ruling which states that "Any notion of = high=20 government officials being above the law... [cannot] save = this=20 [Judge]."