A simple idea that will solve America's Education problems:
School choice
Divide the amount of money spent on education, and provide
to each parent, to be used by those parents in the educational institution of their choice - public, charter or private. Homsechoolers could also get support for homseschooling, ie rebates for textbooks and learning aids.
The $7,000 per year spent per child on education (U.S. average) would be spent more wisely, and actual learning in student would advance considerably.
This idea was first proposed in 1955 by Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Freidman. Good ideas never go out of style.
times 2 kids x times 6 and 8 years?
I need some major reparataions over here!!
"Good ideas never go out of style."
It's a good idea, but the courts will never let vouchers stand.
A better way to approach it in my view is to simply charge tuition at the government schools. Give parents a generous child tax credit that just happens to equal the tuition charged by the government schools. Parents can spend their tax credit as they please: on the government schools, private schools, or homeschool and use the difference for groceries.
That gets around the separation of church and state baloney that the radical left and it's fellow travelers in the judiciary have used to kill vouchers.