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Economist makes the argument against vouchers

Another study showing how the free market is not appropriate for education, especially for the disadvantaged kids they claim it will help. “Harris explains how schools are ill-suited for a free market approach, and so, when looking at current school choice policy he finds, ‘the current direction of policy is off-track and apparently inconsistent with the main criteria on which we evaluate education policy and even with the values that voucher advocates themselves profess.’ “Harris points out that not only are educational free markets inefficient and marked by the failures noted above, but that this inefficiency also leads...
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Moms for Liberty Post Misleading Information

Moms for Liberty and other ultracons are misusing NAEP and Kansas Assessment data to create a false narrative of failing schools. This article is about NAEP, but the same thing is happening with respect to the Kansas Assessment, which according to NAEP has the highest cut scores in the country. JOCO M4L are claiming about 50% of Blue Valley students are not performing adequately, when 90% of Blue Valley students go on to college. Which statistic looks gamed to you? Don’t fall for this and don’t let your neighbors who don’t have kids in school fall for it...
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