Negative Space: educational diversity
- OccupyDemocrats breaks with teacher unions, demands school choice
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In a major break with a critical Democrat power base, OccupyDemocrats accuses Democrats, NEA, and former President Obama with “denying minority children the right to quality education in order to keep them in chains to a failed ideology.”
- ACLU enables Texas textbook takeover
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If you give the government a gun, some politician or bureaucrat somewhere is going to pull the trigger. Make sure that whatever powers you cede to the government are powers you want them to exercise.
- Americans United decries Democrats preaching in schools
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Influential Separation of Church and State organization says opposition to second Obama term stems from the President and his supporters “using public schools for preaching”.
- Anything less than school choice is unfair
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Forcing people to pay for one government school regardless of where they want their kids to go is so unfair that even far-left Democrats think it’s wrong.
- AUSCS voucher plea
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Americans United for the Synchronization of Church and State, a little-known right-wing organization dedicated to government-run schools, made a heartfelt plea this week to block school choice. “Otherwise, who knows what might be taught in schools?” asked AUSCS Executive Director Barry W. Lynn.
- Blogs fight resegregation in DC?
- Can bloggers resurrect a successful education program that beltway Democrats killed?
- COVID Lessons: Government Monopolies are Still Monopolies
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Our response to COVID-19 was almost designed to make it worse. We shut down the nimble small businesses that could respond quickly, and relied almost solely on large corporations and the government monopolies that failed us, because they are monopolies.
- COVID Lessons: How can we respond to a disease before it spreads?
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How can we make ourselves less vulnerable to sudden epidemics, before they become epidemics, and without causing epidemic levels of deaths?
- D.C. voucher students show gains
- D.C. voucher students show increased learning at lower cost; parents happy. Washington Post not as happy.
- Democrats endorse public school elections, teacher recalls?
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Should legislators and teachers be evaluated for job performance in the same way? A group called Winning Democrats suggests that public school teachers should be elected positions rather than tenured, and that teachers should be subject to recall by the communities they serve.
- Essential revolution: lasting reform
- The most important reform is the reform that makes the reformer obsolete.
- Government cheese goes to school
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Government cheese is government cheese, whether it’s a poor food product, poor housing, or poor education.
- Government food courts
- Imagine there’s no grocery… it isn’t hard to do… nothing to grill or fry for…… and no bacon too…
- Is Trump calling the bluff of establishment Republicans?
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By appointing Republicans who have promised to reduce government into the very areas they’ve promised to depower, is Trump calling the establishment’s bluff?
- The left’s hatred of business is a lie
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The left doesn’t hate business. They hate you and me.
- Maintaining Educational Diversity
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A state-run education is ever a danger to a liberal, free country. At any time, demagogues can take control over the education of nearly every child in the country.
- Natural monopolies: a 20-minute call for $8.83
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“A 20-minute call anywhere in the country will cost me only $3.33? What’s the catch?” The catch is that those are still outrageous monopolistic prices.
- No room for education reform in spending frenzy
- In a year of record spending, the one thing we apparently can’t afford is saving money on better education.
- Texas school choice
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Anti-choice activists in Texas are concerned that letting parents choose which schools to send their children to would remove all accountability from those schools.
- The Washington, DC Prison Experiment
- When public schools are mandated for the underprivileged and alternatives are shut down, abusive behavior on the part of school officials to students is inevitable.
- What is a captive audience, anyway?
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G.K. Chesterton writes, in Eugenics and Other Evils, that whenever someone starts asking “what is x anyway?” you know they’re trying to pull some wool over your eyes and make it the default. So, really, what is a captive audience, anyway?
- Why is it so difficult to hold schools accountable?
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Simulating accountability in education has the same problems as simulating accountability in health care or any other monopoly. Tests and grades and paperwork are never as effective as choice.
- Why not support government unions? You support NFL unions!
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Either teachers unions don’t understand the difference between the private and public sectors, or they want to force us to pay for NFL season tickets regardless of whether we watch football.
More Information
- How Rural Colorado Parents Created A ‘No Politics’ Public School In Just One Year
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“These highly skilled parents came together to not just solve their own kids' education needs but offer a high-quality education to families in their glorious Colorado mountain town.”
- Texas Public Policy Foundation
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“The Foundation's mission is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach.”
- How does school choice affect public schools? (PDF)
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“Sound research has demonstrated consistently that school choice policies improve public school performance. More than 20 credible studies indicate school choice programs introduce more competition among all public and private schools, compelling them to work harder to attract and retain students. Not a single empirical study has found that outcomes at public schools worsen as a result of school choice programs, and numerous studies have found that they improve over time.”
- SPLC: If You Can’t Help Every Child, You Can’t Help Any Child
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“Most people know the story of the boy who was rescuing sea stars that had washed up on a beach by throwing them back into the ocean. When a man scoffed to the boy that his efforts didn’t make a difference since he couldn’t save all of them, the boy tossed another sea star back into the ocean and replied, ‘It made a difference to that one.’ The little-known ending to the story is that the boy was sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
