The education people at Cato do remarkable work. They put together one of the best charts I’ve ever seen, and they are leading the fight for school choice and against any federal government role in education.
This new video, showing the failure of Bush’s main education initiative, is one example of their great work.
The right approach, of course, is to get the federal government out of the education business completely, and then disband government-imposed school monopolies at the state and local level – as explained in this video.
School choice doesn’t automatically mean every child will be an educational success, but evidence from Sweden, Chile, and the Netherlands shows good results after breaking up state-run education monopolies.
And there’s growing evidence that it also works in the limited cases where it exists in the United States.
I will say this. As it was explained to me, because of NCLB I was able to transfer my child out of one school and into another. We had to attend a big propaganda rally where the teachers made a pitch as to why we should trust them but they did not have the power to refuse our transfer request.
The guy who eventually signed it treated us like we were beneath contempt in wanting our kid to attend a better school. It was very clear that he considered the teachers and union to be his customer and not the parents or their children.
This is the only effect I can directly attribute to NCLB in my district. My opinion is that education is too important to be left to the government but while we are still in their clutches we should at least be given as much freedom as possible.
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