>>>But schools? Sheesh. Do you have a model where this sort of school privatization has worked in a large first-world state? How do you know it won't end up like the privatized US healthcare system that even Obama's opponents agree is too expensive and needing reform?
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>>See Washington DC voucher program. So successful it was just killed by the Dems in power because it was undermining the union controlled, disaster they call the public system.
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>I thought the DC public schools were making great strides. Some Korean lady running it now. The last I heard, though, she was expected to wind up in a big battle with the teachers' union.
DC schools are making great strides in terms of appearing to improve....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071604177.html?hpid=sec-educationhttp://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m7d18-Juking-the-Stats-101-How-supposed-education-reformers-lie-with-statistics
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