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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (245653)	2/26/2014 2:03:03 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542126

Now of course a kid needs plenty of schooling and I would support increased funds for education for welfare kids if there was an agreed upon measure of results to be had. I don't agree with the conditional you attach but as for the measure of results we already have that in public education. One of the reasons, for instance, de Blasio kept the NYC schools open on difficult snow days (and a debate we had on my local school board) is that some number of kids get their only meal(s) of the day at school. I suspect that number is rather large in NYC. If they don't eat well, they can't learn. So, let's get them all in schools. And then let's put enough funding into urban and rural schools to make the schools work. We do neither now. Every serious study I saw that dealt with serious educational reform showed it helped these kids. As you might guess, if the reforms lasted only a year or two, the results diminished over time. But that's an argument to put reform efforts into all grades, not just early grades. Having said that, I have little doubt Heritage Foundation types can find a study or three that runs counter to my argument. Apparently that was always their role--find or create studies that contradict good social policy.