The Anti-Educational Effects of Public Schools

Tags: Monopoly and Competition, Education, Taxes and Spending

07/02/2010 Gennady Stolyarov II

With so many state governments' budgets now under severe strain, there are serious discussions about how to cut state funding to public education. Hopefully, the schools themselves will become only a memory of a less-enlightened past, writes Gennady Stolyarov II.

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