States Have no Business Running Schools: Free the Children, Cut the Budget

Written By: Sheldon Richman  |  Posted: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

             Pundits like David Brooks of the New York Times lament that the deficit-cutting mood supposedly sweeping the United States is myopically targeting education in favor of more powerful constituencies. "If you look across the country, you see education financing getting sliced - often in the most thoughtless and destructive ways," Brooks writes. "The future has no union." In Washington, he adds, early-childhood programs might be slashed, and

            Many governors of both parties are diverting money from schools in thoughtless and self-destructive ways. Hawaii decided to cut the number of days in the school year. Of all the ways to cut education, why on earth would you reduce student time in the classroom?

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