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IPFS News Link • Education: Government Schools

The Failure of Public Schooling in One Chart

• https://fee.org, Daniel J. Mitchell

I can't imagine anyone looking at his chart and not immediately realizing that you don't get better results by pouring more money into the government's education monopoly.

But the edu-crat lobby acts as if evidence doesn't matter. At the national level, the state level, and the local level, the drumbeat is the same: Give us more money if you care about kids.

So let's build on Coulson's chart to show why teachers' unions and other special interests are wrong.

Gerard Robinson of the American Enterprise Institute and Professor Benjamin Scafidi from Kennesaw State University take a close look at this issue.

"…education is important to the economic and social well-being of our nation, which is why it is the No. 1 line item in 41 state budgets. …Schools need extra money to help struggling students, or so goes the long-standing thinking of traditional education reformers who believe a lack of resources – teachers, counselors, social workers, technology, books, school supplies – is the problem. …a look back at the progress we've made under reformers' traditional response to fixing low-performing schools – simply showering them with more money – makes it clear that this approach has been a costly failure.


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