Via HotAir.com, comes a video that would have been produced by ABC News or CNN… if a Republican president had been the one to sign the writ of execution on a successful school voucher program that was helping underprivileged African-American students in the nation’s worst place to attend public school.  But, since the bill that contained language sunseting the program was signed into law by President Obama it takes the yeoman’s work of Reason TV to make sure the families hurt by the program’s death have their stories seen and heard.

The video dovetails on the themes of betrayal that were also written about in an outstanding piece Mary Katherine Ham wrote for The Weekly Standard (“The Shame of the Senate”) just after the Senate dirty work was done in March.  Read a few paragraphs of Ham’s piece to get your blood boiling before the main event, the video below:

The porch light is on at a modest townhouse in Northeast D.C. Inside, there’s a strategy session that looks nothing like the ones held behind the closed doors of Congress. School-choice activist Virginia Walden-Ford is chatting with her sister and local parents. A little girl is perched on the arm of an overstuffed chair, watching American Idol. A troop of boys clatters down the narrow stairway, spilling into the living room and scattering shoes and action figures in the process. Conversation seamlessly stops and starts amid questions for moms or hugs for “Miss Virginia,” as the kids call her.

“I fight for these children,” says Walden-Ford. “And I will fight till I die. People think I’m saying that lightly, and I’m not. I will fight till I can’t fight anymore because I feel these kids deserve this program.”

Miss Virginia is the voice of school choice in Washington, D.C. She fought for years for the Opportunity Scholarship, a pilot school-choice program that serves 1,700 District kids from families with an average annual income of $23,000. It passed the Republican-controlled Senate in 2004, but only by two votes and after Walden-Ford spent months shuttling parents and kids to Capitol Hill every day, to the offices of the encouraging and the intractable alike.

The program has produced an Archbishop Carroll High School valedictorian, four years of positive reviews in a Georgetown University study of attitudes about the program, and a perennially high demand for scholarships. Yet success wasn’t enough to keep the program safe in a Democrat-controlled Congress.

Finally, here’s the video:

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