WOAI radio, the flagship station of San Antionio-based media giant Clear Channel media, reports  that a powerful group of businessmen and former politicians have embarked on a project to fight school vouchers in the state of Texas.  The group proclaims that the idea is to fix what's wrong with the public schools, but the mechanism to accomplish this, is,...to spread the message of the dangers that vouchers would do to the public schools.The advisory board of the new group includes several heavy hitters in the South Texas corporate arena, such as HEB grocery chain Chairman Charles Butt.  Butt's net worth is over $2 billion; and has a long history of charitable giving including large contributions to help develop cures for diseases and other scientific research.He has also given much of his pre-tax earnings to public education; an interesting choice of a "charity."  Butt has also given money to anti-school choice groups such as Texas Parent PAC.  He...(Read Full Post)