What’s wrong with school ‘choice’? Here’s what.
The idea of giving students a choice of where to go school — with public funds — may sound good, but there are problems attached. The following post explains some of them. It was written by David A. Pickler, president of the National School Boards Association and chairman of Tennessee’s Shelby County Board of Education.
By David A. Pickler
Imagine a state outsourcing the education of its disadvantaged children to dozens of private entities, asking for only minimal updates on the students’ learning and their financial management of taxpayers’ dollars.
This happened in Louisiana last year, when Gov. Bobby Jindal and his allies in the state legislature rammed through a school voucher bill that diminished communities’ schools and their students by siphoning off public funds to private, parochial, and for-profit enterprises.
But the Louisiana Supreme Court recently took a strong stand for public education
Harvard students seek probe of controversial PhD thesis on Hispanics’ IQ
Harvard students seek probe of controversial PhD thesis on Hispanics’ IQ
Harvard University students signed and delivered a petition to President Drew Faust last week demanding an investigation into how the school awarded a doctorate in 2009 based on a dissertation that claimed that Hispanics are not as smart as whites. … Continue reading →