>>>>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.
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>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-education
>http://www.examiner.com/x-356-SF-Education-Examiner~y2009m7d18-Juking-the-Stats-101-How-supposed-education-reformers-lie-with-statistics

Well, sure they "juke the stats" a little, same as any other big city school system since No Child Left Behind. But my understanding is the DC schools have made real progress in what was once among the most notorious school systems in the country. It can't all be dismissed as just twisting the numbers around.