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What’s Wrong with Public Schools?

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The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Separating School & State: How to Liberate America’s Families (1994) by Sheldon Richman. It’s time to admit that pubic education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody’s role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It’s no surprise that our school system doesn’t improve; It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy. — Albert Shanker, president, American Federation of Teachers To have reasonable expectations about the public schools, we must be clear about what they are and how they operate. It is necessary to look at how they are funded and controlled and what implications those aspects of the system have for ...

Whats Wrong with Public Schools?

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The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Separating School & State: How to Liberate Americas Families (1994) by Sheldon Richman. Its time to admit that pubic education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybodys role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. Its no surprise that our school system doesnt improve; It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy. Albert Shanker, president, American Federation of Teachers To have reasonable expectations about the public schools, we must be clear about what they are and how they operate. It is necessary to look at how they are funded and controlled and what implications those aspects of the system have for ...

An Important Message to FFF Supporters

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This past year has been our most productive yet in terms of spreading ideas on liberty. It has also been one of our most difficult in terms of the financial resources that are necessary to sustain our endeavors. Thus, I hope you will give this letter your very careful consideration. A few years ago, our supporters entrusted us with the funds to construct a first-class website that would enable us to spread the philosophy of freedom to people all over the world, especially here in the United States. That financial support — and the website it brought into existence — has paid off in ways that we could not even imagine when we began the project. Consider our website statistics in the last year alone: Alexa.com ranking: September 2002 - 47,749 December 2003 - 9,365 Total website hits: September 2002 - ...