FOURTH AND FINAL BRADLEY PRIZE ANNOUNCED

[A Milwaukeeworld Exclusive]
By Michael Horne
[Dear Reader -- It looks like we scored a scoop here today, even beating the Washington Times! --Ed.]
Clint Bolick, the President and General Counsel of the Alliance for School Choice has been named this morning as the fourth and final winner of the 2006 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Achievement.
The award, to be presented at a gala ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on Thursday May 25th, 2006 (mark your calendar!) comes with a $250,000 honorarium.
Bolick has ties to Milwaukee and Wisconsin. He argued school choice issues before the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1991 and won the 1998 Jackson v. Benson case before the Supreme Court that ruled in favor of parental choice in Wisconsin.
It is said that when he delivered his arguments before the court in 1991 he had expected to see school children in the gallery. There were none! The school bus carrying the tykes to Madison had broken down en route. By the time the children arrived, their seats were filled.
Bolick remembers seeing their faces pressed against the glass windows of the courtroom. The poor children on the outside looking in provided him with a metaphor for the condition of the educational system in this country as he saw it.
This touching incident may rank as a watershed moment in the history of Compassionate Conservatism.
The selection committee for the Bradley Prizes included Thomas L. "Dusty" Rhodes, Bradley Foundation President & CEO Michael W. Grebe, William F. Buckley, George F. Will, Charles Krauthammer, Terry Considine, Reed Coleman and Dianne Sehler.
Will, a previous winner of the Bradley Prize, will be the keynote speaker at the awards ceremony.
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