A recent publication by the United States Department of Education has admitted that the average cost of public education per pupil is slightly more than double the cost per pupil of a private education, even though public schools have more students per teacher. Thus, there was no economy of scale as the per pupil cost should theoretically decline the more students there are per teacher.
Uh huh. Well that kinda makes vouchers look better doesn't it? Actually I'd fully privatize schooling, but the government would then pay for the cost of pupils totally. The government would save money, schools would get better (or at the least have a better student-to-pupil ratio), and everybody wins.
I'd also institute a negative income tax with a flat tax and guaranteed minimum income but that's just me. Can't imagine why sweeping away the structure of welfare and drastically simplifying the tax code while at the same time replacing them with a better system would help anyone at all.
Anyway, public schooling (as the term in used outside the UK) is not the way to go. Both cost and quality wise.
OK Keller -- where and when has the private sector ever delivered universal free education? Can you name somewhere? Thought not.
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http://www.policyreview.org/apr0...r03/ jowitt.html
632C5R09OW8
ftssoldier.blogspot.com
www.edwardsaid.org
Dave as regards iraq check this
webpage out, It is real live plan
to redraw the map of middle east.
http://www.armedforcesjournal.co...2006/06/
1833899
what do you think?
PLEASE REPLY.
and read this:
http://www.policyreview.org/apr0...pr03/
kurtz.html
The opposing view:
http://www.policyreview.org/apr0...r03/
jowitt.html
OMG! I was just talking about this very thign with Dan the other day - saying it would be next. How uncanny is that. Maybe someone was eavesdropping?
This is a policy that the far-right (economic) party in NZ (ACT) has peddled over the years without much success.
I imagine this will not be the end of the usual rubbish from Milburn and his ilk. I don't think the Tories would seriously introduce education vouchers - even they are not so foolish. Who needs the Tories when New Labour will do all your privatising for you?
What appalls me about the Milburns of this world (plenty of them in New Labour) is the way they dress the latest right-wing claptrap in Left clothing. Why do they not have the decency to resign, join the Tories or a more fringe right-wing party? Am I too cynical in thinking that they would get nowhere, when it is much easier to con people into voting Labour and getting the unmandated policies of the extreme right instead?
I'd privatise Milburn instead of schooling (this is, of course, what the voucher scheme is all about). Trouble is, who would buy him and his rubbish...............or has he already been bought?
My blood pressure won't take much more of this kind of betrayal - better starting saving up to pay for treatment.
Keller, I do think this blog is for people of the left, not the crackpot right. Free speech, yes, but why not exercise your right elsewhere? Plenty of places for that - the Murdoch press, for a start.
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Robbinghood: The best comment ever! Why stop at Milburn? Surely we can privatise New Labour? A record of failing delivery and being run down by its owners?
Some Ultra Blairites have been saying this for a while so this is old news really. Anne McElvoy once did a piece in the New Statesman in the late 1990s advocating this.
My own view is entirely consistent with Labour's principles: remove the charitable exemption for public schools and then...Take them into public ownership!
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