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To: LindyBill who wrote (54978)	7/19/2004 2:03:05 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793999

Super article, LB! Yes, the Education President Sol Stern One would think that the NEA and various Educational groups would rally around the President, if for no other reason, than the kids..... But that is just wishful thinking. Our kids are going to be the ones who pay the price for the Educators' arrogance when other kids from around the world get the choice jobs, and ours do not. >>>>>> In any case, the funding issue is a red herring. The schools’ woes have nothing to do with lack of funds. State, local, and federal expenditures on K-12 public education have tripled in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1960 and are nearing half a trillion dollars a year. The nation today spends from 30 to 80 percent more per pupil than other industrialized countries. Yet the U.S. usually comes in around 15th in international comparisons of student performance in math and reading.<<<<<<< >>>>>>> The Census Bureau has just released figures showing that the D.C. public school district spends a mind-boggling $13,400 per pupil—higher than any state in the union. Yet as everyone now knows, Washington has the worst schools in the country. When, as is likely, thousands of D.C. voucher recipients manage to find perfectly decent schools for $7,500 or less, even the most mathematically challenged taxpayers will comprehend just how much the public education system that President Bush has valiantly worked to reform has been ripping them off. And then, perhaps, the idea of school choice will begin to seem as sensible and commonplace as compulsory schooling itself.<<<<<<<<<