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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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prakhar porwal
surest route to the middle class. To compete with
other countries we must strengthen STEM
education. Early in my administration, I called for
a national effort to move American students from
the middle to the top of the pack in science and math achievement. Last year, I announced an
ambitious goal of preparing 100,000 additional
STEM teachers over the next decade, with growing
philanthropic and private sector support. My
"Educate to Innovate" campaign is bringing
together leading businesses, foundations, non- profits, and professional societies to improve
STEM teaching and learning. Recently, I outlined a
plan to launch a new national STEM Master
Teacher Corps that will be established in 100 sites
across the country and be expanded over the next
four years to support 10,000 of the best STEM teachers in the nation.
Brock Hardwood
John Moonstroller 20+
When I graduated in the Eighties, the jobs were not there. We were in the midst of a recession and everyone was either slowing down or cutting back. I ended up creating a job in the metal salvage industry; made boo-cu bucks. I also established a lock and key business before settling in the programming industry as a lone maverick. My first job was as a programmer in a robotics factory but that fell off after a year, leaving me looking for work. There simply weren't any jobs to be had back then and entrepreneurship was the way to go, as it might be today.
Brock Hardwood
Our weak economy doesn't help. Degrees without experience have always posed difficulty for new grads throughout all of history.
It can be hard for some to realize the value of a science education. Not everybody is going to go into a profession that needs it. To that end, I actually think one of the most practical classes I ever took in high school was typing. However, from an economy point of view, if only 1 out of 1,000 students with a science education went on to be innovators, the payoff would be worth it. 50 million K-12 students in the pipeline would translate to 50,000 innovators for our future.
John Moonstroller 20+
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-07-07/national/35486154_1_research-jobs-life-sciences-scientists