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> Public education has plenty of funding; maybe enable parents to choose where their kids go so failing schools and teachers can be shutdown and fired. That wi
by kedean 6y ago
> Public education has plenty of funding; maybe enable parents to choose where their kids go so failing schools and teachers can be shutdown and fired.
That will make things worse, not better. School inequity right now stems almost entirely from the practice of funding schools with property taxes, leading to schools in wealthier districts getting good budgets and schools in low-income areas getting shoestring budgets. The distribution of funding needs to be made equitable before you start shutting down schools and firing people.
- iguy 6y agoAlways a bit shocked how much is spent, even on schools which don't perform well. Baltimore spends $16k per student per year, NYC $23k. Maybe it's even higher in rich suburbs but that's quite the "shoestring". For comparison, these numbers are 2-3x the OECD average. Germany spends about 11k, France 9k. (All from quick googling.)
- xyzzyz 6y agoThe schools in bad districts have their budgets propped up by state and federal funds, and typically they spend more per student than schools in wealthy districts. Look it up. At the same time, school spending doesn’t really matter. Public schools in NYC and DC spend insane amounts of money per student and have abysmal results anyway.