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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
There are plenty of Democrats, including much of the current Administration, that are willing to take on the teachers unions.
If, like me, you have kids in public schools, then you are less likely to see spending more money on the public schools as throwing it down the toilet. Lower teacher:student ratios are better. To get those lower ratios, you need to hire more teachers. Are there any Republicans who are willing to admit that spending money on a problem tends to help? I agree that money spent on public education should be spend well, but there are not a lot of Republicans willing to take the time to try to make government work better, at least at the higher levels. They want to starve it.
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Perhaps it is my conservative news media bias showing, but are there studies that show that money improves outcomes? I am aware of many failures, but am receptive to stories of success.
I went to a public school that was pretty highly subsidized by the federal government at the time, due to special circumstances, and had many highly educated teachers with advanced degrees from Ivies (mainly because they had social science degrees and were otherwise unemployable in the town), but for many reasons my personal experience with public education is not likely to be replicated anywhere else.
