This point needs to be hammered home. It's also essential to roll back all the liberal pedagogy. This is where the failure rate is coming from. It shouldn't take 30 or 40 thousand dollars a year (9 months) to teach kid reading, writing, arithmetic, history and science. They don't need stuff like environmental awareness week for heavens sake.
The Statist would argue that private schools can do it much cheaper because they can ‘pick and choose’ who they take.
but this still doesn’t address why it costs MPLS schools over $13k per kid per year. Doesn’t explain why they always need more $ even when enrollment is down.
Tution tax credits or maybe vouchers would solve most our education debacle.
It makes no sense that “state money” (Pell Grants,Stafford loans,GI Bill ,etc) is OK for private colleges , but is not allowed for K-12. Does this magic “Church & State wall” only appear after 12th grade?