Black Alliance Weighs in With Pro-Voucher Campaign

By Karla Scoon Reid

Critics of vouchers often portray their proponents as white conservatives bent on transforming public schools into open markets, exploiting them to make profits to the detriment of poor black children.

But the complexion of the school choice debate is getting a makeover.

Dorothy Smith, a 57-year-old African-American mother and grandmother in Milwaukee, certainly doesn't fit that description. Yet she appears in a $1.3 million television campaign being run on stations in Washington, praising...