No Voice, No Exit:
The Inefficiency of America's Public Schools
by Robert Franciosi on 06/20/2001
20 Pages
Press Release (07/09/2001)
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Synopsis:
Over the past 40 years, taxpayers have supplied the U.S. public education system with steady improvements in funding, teacher pay, teacher credentials, and student/teacher ratios.Yet with these resources, public education has consistently failed to produce well-educated children; indeed, the quality of education has declined over time as measured by almost any standard. Centralization and unionization have removed parental voice and exit from the system, which can only be restored through school choice.
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