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Education "vouchers" solve the fiscal crisis, and also lead to economic recovery?
Simply open up K-12 education to the market place, with government only playing a role by financing the students with a yearly education check of $8000.
*www.usagovernmentspending.com shows American local governments spending $458.3 billion for K-12 education in 2012.
*(Sir Ken Robinson says this education system is a complete failure)
*The new education cost of $8000 education check to 50 million K-12 students is $400 billion per year
*This saves $58.3 billion
*(a $6000 check would save $158.3 billion)
*The yearly education check allows students(and their parents) to choose how, when, where, and what they learn, and also who teaches them
*The yearly education check of $8000 opens up a $400B/year market to entrepreneurs, teachers, and creatives
*($6000 check opens up a $300B/year market to entrepreneurs, teachers, and creatives)
State fiscal crisis solved, federal fiscal crisis solved, and the new education market leads America's economic recovery.
Thoughts everyone?
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Varlan Allan 10+
I would like to know where you are getting your statistics...
I never said there is no governing body to maintain standards of teaching. And I think that that is the largest of most people's concerns. But I would not be surprised by lower standards at private schools, but I believe in keeping a governing body which often private schools do not have. I am interested in seeing the numbers.
But someone such as myself believes in Higher standards and peer evaluation.
Robert Vigerious
"A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice" by Cohen, March, Olsen.
If you read it and then look for its references, you may find what Brock Hardwood quoted.
Varlan Allan 10+
Robert Vigerious