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per-capita enrollment payments to schools and a system of general funding to all schools Isn't that what's done here in the states? I know the charter system
by dhimes 18y ago
per-capita enrollment payments to schools and a system of general funding to all schools
Isn't that what's done here in the states? I know the charter system caused huge political fights here in Massachusetts because, after being given a few years to get established, they began taking money from the "regular" public schools on a per-student-enrolled basis.
Many of those charter schools were consistently posting state test results that surpassed the "regular" public schools' by a wide margin. We later learned that at least some of those charter schools were exercising their freedom to kick out students for whom they felt the experiment wasn't working by return to the mainstream schools the ones who weren't doing well on their exam preparation.
So, at least here, there is an ugly side too. It is unfortunate, because the ability to experiment and determine what works the best is something we're capable of doing in the US (it's so huge). Within a reasonably short time we could probably come up with a pretty good system. I am still a fan of the charter experiment, by the way, I just have to be careful judging the evidence that I see.
- tokenadult 18y agoNo state in the United States has the pervasive freedom to form new schools and immediately obtain equal funding that one finds in the Netherlands. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED316478&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED316478 http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordD...
- dhimes 18y agoThanks for the link, but I'll note here that it's from 1989.
- tokenadult 18y agoThe constitutional system of school finance in the Netherlands is more than a century old.
- dhimes 18y agoMy point is that in the last 20 years things have changed here. For instance, states obtained the right to start charter schools with funding.
- tokenadult 18y agoAll right. My point is that even with the most recent changes in the United States (I live in the state with the very first charter school law, and with the very first public school open enrollment law), there is still much more power to shop for schools in the Netherlands than in any part of the United States, and has been for a century.
- dhimes 18y agoI'm not disputing your point at all. Here we are in the early experimenting stage. Now that I've checked your profile, I recognize you from a group to which we both subscribe (I lurk mainly, because my interests are commercial, but occasionally I'll contact someone off-line if I think I can help).