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Monday, March 19, 2007
The Real Reason Behind the Push for School Vouchers
By Kevin Drum: [V]oucher proposals are really just a stalking horse to bust teachers unions. It implicitly assumes that the biggest contributor to poor public education in America -- so big that it's worth literally anything to get rid of them -- is the existence of grievance procedures and seniority.Unfortunately, there's no evidence to back this up. Unions appear to have, at most, modest and variable effects on student outcomes. Even the most hostile reading of the evidence doesn't come anywhere close to suggesting that unions are the single biggest obstacle in the way of educating our children properly.
Labels: education, kevin drum, teachers unions, vouchers
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Interesting. My take on it has been that the right wingers' vouchers mania arises from two other desires: 1, privatization of K-12 education; and 2, promotion of the idea no component of government except the White House and military can be trusted to do anything well.
However, there's no denying how anti-union Republicans are, neocons especially.
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However, there's no denying how anti-union Republicans are, neocons especially.
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