School Choice Now More than Ever

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American Thinker:

It’s the only alternative to ever more destructive Democratic-run inner-city schools.

Last week the government issued a jaw-dropping report telling us that segregation in public schools is getting worse not better. The study by the Government Accountability Office that the percentage of schools with “racial or socioeconomic isolation” has nearly doubled (from 9 to 16 percent) between 2001 and 2014. These segregated schools tend to perform worse. As Democratic Rep. John Conyers put it: “There can be no excuse for allowing educational apartheid in the 21st century.”

 

Of course, that’s true. The government has re-created an education system that is separate and unequal with the poor and mostly blacks and Hispanics stuck in the worst inner city schools. ‎

 

Mr. Conyers thinks the solution is more money for schools. He’s wrong. Cities with some of the worst government-run schools in the country — places like Chicago and Washington, D.C. — spend $15,000 to $20,000 per student. Many catholic schools in these cities spend one-third to one-half less, and get much better results. ‎Public schools spend twice per student what they did in the 1960s.