Posted on 12/15/2014 2:30:33 PM PST by ThethoughtsofGreg
Less than half of states make a vibrant effort to provide a wide array of options to their students. In all, 51 private school choice programs exist in 24 states and in Washington, D.C. Fourteen states offer tax-credits scholarship programs, while just two – Arizona and Florida – offer education saving account programs. As a result, private school choice is an area where states tended to do poorly on the report. It would be beneficial for student achievement if policymakers worked to create more options for educational opportunity. The relative decline of American academic achievement corroborates that reality.
According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United States spends more than any other nation in the world to educate its students, at an average of approximately $12,000 per year per K-12 student. Yet American students consistently fall behind their global counterparts academically. They were outperformed in mathematics in the 2012 global Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), for instance, by students in 33 other regions, ranking right between the Slovak Republic and Lithuania.
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Can that work?
That would be nice. But what about those who don’t own their own homes? The left would portray this is a subsidy for those “who can afford it”, or some such class-envy nonsense.
Wonder what the score is if you eliminate all the government indoctrination center's heads full of mush?
I would expect the score to climb dramatically.
Quite right. Then maybe more than one system which is equitable.
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