by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2011 | Blogs, Free Market
School choice doesn’t automatically mean every child will be an educational success, but evidence from other nations certainly suggests it means better overall performance. Sweden, Chile, and the Netherlands are just some of the countries that have seen good results...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education
Walter Williams has pointed out on many occasions that many government programs and initiatives exist primarily for the benefit of the bureaucracy, and he coined the phrase “poverty pimps” to describe the folks who get comfortable government jobs to operate programs...
by Dan Mitchell | May 19, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Bureaucracy, Education, Government Spending
I’ve had dozens of posts about overpaid bureaucrats. Indeed, I’ve largely stopped blogging about the topic because it is so depressing to constantly be reminded about how a privileged class of people is manipulating the system to coercively obtain undeserved...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 14, 2011 | Blogs, Education
Forget the victory over the union bosses in Wisconsin. Yes, that was important, but school choice is an ever bigger threat to the left. Breaking the government education monopoly would reveal the inefficiency and incompetence of government, while simultaneously...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 2, 2011 | Blogs, Education
School choice should be the civil rights issue of the 21st century. Rich people already have school choice, both because they have the ability to live in good school districts and they have the resources to send their kids to private schools. The children of poor...
