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On the one hand, choice advocates have clearly made some remarkable progress over the last two years. Setting up a genuine educational marketplace in California, Illinois, Massachusetts or New York will prove much harder. Nevertheless, it does seem likely that, over the long run, even Democrat-dominated legislatures will have a hard time resisting school choice, especially as their parent constituents learn how well red state students are doing compared to their own.
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Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
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Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
Podcast link is here.
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Not going to happen. Bureaucracies grow like cancer; except they are worse.
Milton Friedman was the first to propose breaking the School monopoly , he believed that schools were poorly managed and unresponsive to parents.Good teachers had no incentive to work harder as their compensation was fixed and poor teachers could not be fired. I think he was correct in very large cities , but not in smaller cities . School choice will work in Chicago ,but not in the rest of the state.
Teachers Unions are the Dems masters esp. in states like Illinois.
I cannot imagine school choice ever coming to Illinois or Chicago.
Even though it’s needed in Chicago more than anywhere else. At some point you have to say the people who vote for this dysfunction want to wallow in it and there’s nothing a sane person can do to stop it.