by Dan Mitchell | Sep 19, 2020 | Blogs, Education
I’ve been writing about the benefits of school choice for a long time, largely because government schools are becoming ever-more expensive while produced ever-more dismal outcomes. But even I was surprised to see this tweet, which shows how so many parents in New York...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2020 | Blogs, Education
I’m a huge fan of school choice. Simply stated, private schools deliver far superior results for children compared to costly and bureaucratic government schools. Moreover, given the way minorities are poorly served by the status quo, school choice should be the civil...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 19, 2020 | Blogs, Education
Way before we had a pandemic, I wasn’t a fan of the government school monopoly. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, never have so many taxpayers paid so much money into a system that produced such mediocre results for so many people. Now that we have a pandemic, the...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2020 | Blogs, Education
One month ago, I wrote that expanded school choice might be a silver lining to the dark cloud of corornavirus. This issue is getting more heated, as this Reason video explains. When I’ve written in the past about the issue of school choice, I’ve focused on...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 19, 2020 | Blogs, Education
The coronavirus has been horrible news, most obviously because of death and suffering. But the disease has also wreaked havoc with the economy and given politicians an excuse to push counterproductive policies. But if you want to find a silver lining to that dark...