Where charter schools are doing the job and outperforming the public schools I say "great" as I am for the kids and not overly-controlling, selfish unions.
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DeVos and republicans say this is a free market, but it is just a subsidy. Like the mortgage deduction which did nothing to increase home ownership, but rather just inflated asset prices and benefitted those with higher incomes.
My suggestion is to have the president, governors and all politicians put their children in the local public school, then they get involved in helping that school do better for their students and get what the school needs.
My suggestion is to have the president, governors and all politicians put their children in the local public school, then they get involved in helping that school do better for their students and get what the school needs.
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The 'free market' is the savior of all of our problems. That is why they need government funds (vouchers) for their businesses.
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As long as administrators can fire poor performing teachers, recruit educators with a good background that will follow and implement a world-class curriculum, and have a clear communication with parents; you have the blueprints to set-up any school for success.
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Public policy debate for education stirs hackles. Everyone wades in. Educators, economists, psychologists, every parent that ever went to school...and now the banking profession--all have a word on what to 'fix'. While there is no clear, broadly accepted statement on the aims of 'education', the scope of education, or the delivery of education...every ail economic or social is attributed to education. And where there are advances in the economy or society it is NOT education that is praised but the surrogates--innovation, finance, aptitude etc.--Trump hardly praises education and his elementary school teacher for his success or blames her for botching-up many of his enterprises--including his botched venture into private education.
The Dynarski article skips aims and perceives that economics and finance, and private vs. public, are the ails to contend with. However, these were not the central considerations in the debates framing the Constitution. In that period there was some common notion of the relation of education to the common welfare...and it was not an MBA or a job on Wall Street.
Education has been perverted into an establishment that produces a labor pool from which industry/commerce 'cherry-pick' human resources financed by the public. Education and human toil have had their winners. But there is another round. What means for education will we praise in the era of robots and artificial intelligence?
The Dynarski article skips aims and perceives that economics and finance, and private vs. public, are the ails to contend with. However, these were not the central considerations in the debates framing the Constitution. In that period there was some common notion of the relation of education to the common welfare...and it was not an MBA or a job on Wall Street.
Education has been perverted into an establishment that produces a labor pool from which industry/commerce 'cherry-pick' human resources financed by the public. Education and human toil have had their winners. But there is another round. What means for education will we praise in the era of robots and artificial intelligence?
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I have mixed feelings about vouchers.
What do you tell a parent who TODAY has a child in a failing public school.
The student's school is underfunded because the politicians who control the funding of the public school [but of course do not send their precious little darlings to that underfunded school] consider money spent educating OTHER peoples'children as wasted money.
The politician sends his child to a private school where class size is less than 20 but allows public school class size to exceed 30.
Your answer is to work to improve the public schools.
Yes we should improve the public schools.
But an individual parent has no real power to effect change.
Any change would take years.
That means the child TODAY trapped in a failing public school is being written off.
If vouchers are to be used they should not be allowed to be used in religious schools.
Parents are free to send their child to a religious school but public money should not be used to pay religious school tuition.
I know the Court has ruled differently but the 1st amendment is clear.
However Court decisions are not based on the Constitution but on expediency.
In any case there must not be any religious test for admission to a religious school that accepts vouchers.
Schools accepting vouchers must be open enrollment [up to capacity].
Vouchers must cover FULL tuition. Schools accepting vouchers must not be allowed to charge more than the size of the voucher.
What do you tell a parent who TODAY has a child in a failing public school.
The student's school is underfunded because the politicians who control the funding of the public school [but of course do not send their precious little darlings to that underfunded school] consider money spent educating OTHER peoples'children as wasted money.
The politician sends his child to a private school where class size is less than 20 but allows public school class size to exceed 30.
Your answer is to work to improve the public schools.
Yes we should improve the public schools.
But an individual parent has no real power to effect change.
Any change would take years.
That means the child TODAY trapped in a failing public school is being written off.
If vouchers are to be used they should not be allowed to be used in religious schools.
Parents are free to send their child to a religious school but public money should not be used to pay religious school tuition.
I know the Court has ruled differently but the 1st amendment is clear.
However Court decisions are not based on the Constitution but on expediency.
In any case there must not be any religious test for admission to a religious school that accepts vouchers.
Schools accepting vouchers must be open enrollment [up to capacity].
Vouchers must cover FULL tuition. Schools accepting vouchers must not be allowed to charge more than the size of the voucher.
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"In most markets, in fact, economists advocate striking a balance between free competition and regulation. While they vary considerably in where they would strike that balance, it’s unusual for an economist to claim that private markets can serve every need without any government intervention at all.". the Austrian school of economics lead by Murray Rothbard, supports free markets sans government.
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Let's get to the point. At one extreme you have Dems who want to subsidize education for the poorer, weaker students and at the other you have Republicans who don't.
But a common education system is what allowed millions to rise from lower or middle incomes. Additionally, what will happen to communities and neighborhoods when children no longer attend the local school?
But a common education system is what allowed millions to rise from lower or middle incomes. Additionally, what will happen to communities and neighborhoods when children no longer attend the local school?
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There is the Tragedy of the Commons, the basis of all modern environmental efforts (Science Dec 12, 1968 p1243-48). The article points out that resources held in common will be exploited destructively without some regulatory mechanism by the People of the commons.
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