A little competition certainly wouldn’t hurt public education, and it might eliminate some worthless teachers and administrators. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
It’s no secret that US schooling has been in steep decline since the founding of the federal Department of Education in 1980 and the normalization of centralized government curriculum. Reading, math and science scoring is dismal. The US ranks 28th out of 37 countries participating in OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) math scores and 12th in science. The US is 36th in the global literacy rankings. For the richest nation on Earth, these are not encouraging results.
To be sure, demographics do play a role in dragging national scores down, but a greater threat to the learning experience of young Americans is the largely progressive controlled education system infested by a majority Democrat teachers union. For decades there’s been no escape for children and parents from leftist indoctrination, and Democrats would like to keep it that way.
This is why the concept of private school vouchers has been stuck in political limbo for years; the ability to choose threatens the status quo. Democrats claim that school vouchers would primarily benefit students from wealthy families, but the wealthy already have the option of a private education. The middle class does not, and those are the kids that Dems want to keep on the plantation.
Texas conservatives have something to say about that.
