When will the state start to practice what so many of its legislators and its Governor like to preach? Or is education the kind of government monopoly that is exempt from the law of supply and demand?
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Why yes, it is exempt. It is a government obligation whether it is provided to just one or to one hundred thousand. A company with too few customers just goes out of business.
Or maybe you meant the Charter Schools when you wrote education?
@ 3:39 pm on December 8, 2009
Jimmy Carter lives in Dallas?
@ 11:07 pm on December 8, 2009
Yeah Charter Schools, a great free-market idea from Bush Co, well almost as good as the running the Iraq War with for-profit mercenaries:
“Texas officials want a refund for millions of tax dollars from schools that allegedly inflated attendance records, part of a national problem of absenteeism at schools operated by for-profit corporations.Seven charter schools have more than $16 million in debts to the Texas Education Agency for allegedly inaccurate and inflated attendance reports, debts the state may never recoup. The state wrote off another $9 million in debts after 20 charter schools went out of business.”
“Inflated school attendance spark refund push in Texas”By THOMAS HARGROVE and GAVIN OFF, Scripps Howard News Service
A great way to let con-artists loot the Texas Treasury all justified by free-market sophistry.
@ 9:56 am on December 9, 2009
You’re joking, right? Please tell me you’re joking. Not that our current education system is any great shakes, but it would be HORRENDOUS were it left to private companies. You could get away with hiring the least-qualified teachers available to up your profit margins, there would be little to no continuity in or between districts, and the disparity between rich and poor districts would be exponentially greater. Basic education (I’d argue it should be this way through college) is a right, not an opportunity for profit. Gawd.
@ 2:10 pm on December 9, 2009
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Why yes, it is exempt. It is a government obligation whether it is provided to just one or to one hundred thousand. A company with too few customers just goes out of business.
Or maybe you meant the Charter Schools when you wrote education?
Jimmy Carter lives in Dallas?
Yeah Charter Schools, a great free-market idea from Bush Co, well almost as good as the running the Iraq War with for-profit mercenaries:
“Texas officials want a refund for millions of tax dollars from schools that allegedly inflated attendance records, part of a national problem of absenteeism at schools operated by for-profit corporations.Seven charter schools have more than $16 million in debts to the Texas Education Agency for allegedly inaccurate and inflated attendance reports, debts the state may never recoup. The state wrote off another $9 million in debts after 20 charter schools went out of business.”
“Inflated school attendance spark refund push in Texas”By THOMAS HARGROVE and GAVIN OFF, Scripps Howard News Service
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/37597
A great way to let con-artists loot the Texas Treasury all justified by free-market sophistry.
You’re joking, right? Please tell me you’re joking. Not that our current education system is any great shakes, but it would be HORRENDOUS were it left to private companies. You could get away with hiring the least-qualified teachers available to up your profit margins, there would be little to no continuity in or between districts, and the disparity between rich and poor districts would be exponentially greater. Basic education (I’d argue it should be this way through college) is a right, not an opportunity for profit. Gawd.