"ESTABLISH THE LAW FOR EDUCATING THE COMMON PEOPLE"
--Thomas Jefferson
"AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE"
Posted on 10/02/2017 1:21:21 PM PDT by HLPhat
The teachers' unions blockade, which deprives poor children of good education, is starting to crack.
The latest fissures are created by a study of the country's largest private school choice program. According to researchers, the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program, which provides vouchers, increased college enrollment rates by about 6 percentage points for students who participated at all. For those who were in the program for four or more years, the college enrollment rate was as much as 17 points higher.
Before anyone leaps to suggest that this really just means those schools cream off the best students, opponents of school choice should know that children in the program disproportionately come from families with low incomes and, before joining the program, were mostly at bad public schools and did poorly on tests.
The source of this new information is not what opponents might think of as one of the usual suspects. It was not some conservative think-tank, but the left-leaning Urban Institute, a think-tank founded by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
It won't change minds at the National Education Association or the American Federation of Teachers, of course, for nothing does that. But it is pleasing to be able to report that the teachers' unions may soon have less clout. This probability comes not from any new open-mindedness on education among their Democratic allies, but from the judicial system.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a suit challenging a 1977 ruling that said public-sector unions may force non-union employees to pay for bargaining costs
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#WE_STAND!
School choice would go a LONG way to fixing the country long term.
It’s long been established that education majors have among the lowest average SAT scores among majors.
END the Department of Education.
That will break the dam of corrupt, politicized public education, and return it to states, where it belongs.
Bump!
This would destroy all of the good private schools out there.
well DuVos. well Mr. President. where is it? either get rid of the federal schools (i.e., completely defund the subsidized teachers’ country club that they are) or at least give us the right to spend our money more directly on our own kids’ education. one small thing you can do for the working class. but where is it?
i thought school choice was your big thing, one of the big promises? but i hear nothing about initiatives or, gulp, implementation at the dept. of ed. come to think of it.
>>This would destroy all of the good private schools out there.
How?
"ESTABLISH THE LAW FOR EDUCATING THE COMMON PEOPLE"
--Thomas Jefferson
"AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE"
death to all unions
>>death to all unions
Especially the NEA - a self-serving, double+plus dipping, L.I.F.E.R. snake pit.
but but but it’s for the children
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Critics are right about school choice skimming the cream off the top, but they are very wrong about the mechanism. They skim the cream by not having to deal with parents (and their kids) who are indifferent or worse about their kids education.
The ability to tell disruptive bullies they are not welcome is also a big help.
>>parents (and their kids) who are indifferent or worse about their kids education.
The social engineers administrating and “teaching” in public schools really don’t want parents who are active in the educational process.
“Parents don’t care” — That’s just an excuse for the failure of the edumacators.
And, yep - we who are NOT indifferent will put OUR tax dollars to use beyond their purview.
There are a couple of charter schools in Colorado Springs that got funded by a state level program after the local rainbow “progressive”-infested school board refused to sign off on them.
I hear good things from the parents and teachers involved.
Giving the NEA a cashectomy would facilitate that trend.
This would, over time, finally bring a sizeable proportion of black Americans into the America’s mainstream. Their lives have been sabotaged by low quality inner-city government schools.
Not every private school has the answers, though most would be an improvement. The main thing is that solutions for inner city black kids will be found, and will expand.
the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program, which provides vouchers, increased college enrollment rates by about 6 percentage points for students who participated at all. For those who were in the program for four or more years, the college enrollment rate was as much as 17 points higher.
"EDUCATING THE COMMON PEOPLE"
Yep. Jefferson was right - he just underestimated the tendency of the swamp to pervert everything within its grasp towards its own selfish, bureaucratic, purpose.
But still - despite the L.i.F.E.R. poodles best efforts...
>>The ability to tell disruptive bullies they are not welcome is also a big help.
Yes. It certainly is.
How ironic that bullies who call themselves “teachers” and “directors” and “administrators” - will receive the due process they refuse to give the students they have the privilege, through delegated PARENTAL authority, to teach.
I’m referring to an experience about 20 years back, though I think the principles are unchanged. I spent a year with my family in a city that had an active charter school program. We had a wide choice of good schools available for our child. It was great.
There was a variety of private schools that were now less expensive than normal. Even the public schools were better than is usually the case. One promoted their good students as much as their sports team. Another looked like an expensive prep school.
Of course, “public” schools are really government schools. This became all the more apparent to me when one (and only one) school would not consider my daughter for admittance. We were from the wrong side of the tracks, living in a less affluent neighborhood. On the south side of the street, we were out of the district for this public school. I consider myself and my family to be members of the public, but this nearby “public” school was the only school to reject us.
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