GOP Not Walking in Lock Step on School Issues

Hartford, Conn.

When it comes to school choice, Judith G. Freedman is the Benedict Arnold of this state's Republican Party.

Ms. Freedman was installed as the Senate's chairwoman of the legislature's single education committee after 1994 election victories put the GOP in control of the state Senate, 19-17. But from her new seat of power, the former kindergarten teacher last year helped beat back a private-school-voucher proposal offered by her party's chieftain,...

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