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John Biver of championnews.net has a great article this week on how increasing funding for public education does not result in higher student achievement.

He quotes Peter Brimelow, author of The Worm in the Apple, in a statement which is brilliant enough to re-post:

“The government school system is simply the most prominent outbreak of socialism on the American scene. (Unemotionally defined, socialism is the government ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange.) And not surprisingly, after a hundred years or so, the government school system is displaying the classic symptoms of socialism-as they could be observed in the economy of the terminal Soviet Union.”

Read about how privatizing school services offers districts an option to better meet the needs of parents, teachers, students and taxpayers HERE.

Another outlet to overcome the symptoms of socialism seen in the public school system is the immediate removal of the cap on charter schools—public schools which are free to innovate and are actually more accountable to parents and the state.

Accountability to the taxpayers, who are footing the bill, is crucial for good government-and good public education.

Biver is right on in his closing comment that “there is a need for public oversight, restructuring of the public school institutions, and a growing awareness on the part of the public that we can’t just take their word for it.”

And that, my friends, is what transparency is all about.

Public schools are government entities and as such their expenditures should be fully open to the taxpayers.