re: #11 iossarian

Based on your previous comment:

If you have a fixed amount of money to spend on public schools, then cutting base funding and offering parents vouchers that are portable outside of the public system is going to wind up as a subsidy to those who can already afford private education, unless you means-test them or do some other form of redistribution.

The “better way of doing things” is to give everyone a minimum guaranteed income that is sufficient to pay for decent:

- accommodation
- food
- education
- healthcare

and possibly other items I’m leaving out, and then “let the market decide”. Pretty far left for the US though.

Bad premise. It’s not a fixed number it’s a negotiated number. State budgets vary per year, negotiating strength moves around. Like again cash for retirement accounts can’t get into a classroom now can it?

And by the way the connection between budgets and academic outcome is pretty thin. And I never said “let the market decide” That sounds like Koch rhetoric. I’m far more specific-Parents deserve options. They pay for it.