Funding Students, Not School Systems: A Proposal, by Phil Lawler 

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Jan 12, 2022

“Fund the student, not the system.” That slogan looks more and more powerful these days, as:

• … parents teach their children at home, receiving directives— but no help— from the public-school systems;

• …taxpayers confront the ever-higher costs of supporting the public schools (whether or not they are open), and their mediocre educational results; and

• … powerful teachers’ unions, especially in American’s big cities, balk at the suggestion that classrooms should re-open— while of course insisting that teachers must be paid their full-time wages. …

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