Why Our Kids Deserve a Free Market in Education
26th September 2011
John Stossel lays it out.
School spending has doubled over the past 30 years. Yet what do we get? More buildings and more assistant principals—but student learning? No improvement. If you graph the numbers, the spending line slopes steeply, while the lines for reading, math, and science scores are as flat as a dead man’s EKG.
Why no improvement? Because K-12 education is a government monopoly, and monopolies don’t improve.