In the context of covering a debate

over adding "vouchers" into the Minnesota Educational choice mix, St. Paul Pioneer Press columnist Craig Westover tucks this killer parenthesis:

[Before we move on to the question of whether or not the proposed legislation does indeed undermine public education, let's look at the debate thus far. Hann has basically stated his rationale for the bill -- giving low-income families the same opportunity for school choice as more well-to-do families have. Kelly has tried to taint Hann's motives, but made one point -- that a $4,600 grant still doesn't provide low-income families with the same opportunities as the wealthy.

The difference here is one of perception, or rather misperception, of what is meant by "school choice" that is fostered by language used by both Hann and Kelly. "School Choice" does not mean that a parent receives state funding to send a child to any private school they desire. It means the ability to remove a child from a school that is not meeting the child's needs and place that child in another school -- public, private or religious -- that might, in the parent's opinion better educate that child. Currently, 85 percent of non-public schools in the Minneapolis and St. Paul charge tuition less that $4,600. Kelly's "reality" that the proposed legislation doesn't provide low-income families with ALL of the opportunites available to the wealthy ignores the reality that it provides low-income families opportunities they do not have now.]