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Education Spending

…high school cost between public and private schools is that the private schools do significantly worse than the public schools. I wonder what their equivalent of the teachers unions are?…

Entrepreneurs and image problems

…styles somewhat and teach to strengths, not disorders. Without parental help to aid teachers in elementary schools that is extremely hard to do. I can say that in high school

Food responsibility is individual only, like lead paints?

…in physical activity. Such a strategy would include legislation that regulates junk-food advertising, provides adequate funding for decent lunches and regular physical activities at school, restructures the farm-subsidies program to…

CAL’s Propositions: “Just Say No”

…to all public school teachers nationwide, but her money does not go as far as it does in less expensive states. Typically, a California public school teacher stays in the…

Checking the Fact-Checkers

…badly out of context. Minor error for Kerry. Cutting after-school programs: “Kerry’s claim that Bush tried to cut 500,000 children from after-school programs is accurate: Bush’s 2004 budget cut funding…

…quoting, faking the quote was the right thing to do.”) AB P.S. Note to Pruden: The fine folks at Liberty High School in Bethlehem, PA have conveniently placed their style…

Leave No Fraudulent Statistics Behind A while back, Education Secretary Rod Paige made the news because Houston high schools, Sharpstown High School in particular, were caught faking drop out rates….

Modern money and public purpose

From Matt McOsker : This might be a good debate to advertise on AB: http://www.modernmoneyandpublicpurpose.com/mmt-vs-austrian-school.html Modern Monetary Theory vs. the Austrian school macroeconomic debates among the heterodoxy Warren Mosler, Author,…