Another Nail In The Coffin
by Vince?Daliessio
...of truly private education. The US Senate has passed a bill to provide selected high school students with annual cash subsidies for attending selected public high schools and choosing approved math and science courses, Lew Rockwell said it best;
Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education is exactly right: this is a proposal to turn the Department of Education into a national school board. The bureaucrats are already assembling their armies to come to your local high school to administer strict oversight.
It is also intriguing that the legislation seems to leave private schools and home schools completely out of the picture. The legislation says that the receiving students must be part of "program of study established by a state or local educational agency and recognized by the secretary."
Not that private schools and home school should aspire to be on the take. They shouldn't. But a program like this, on the margin, makes it even more difficult for them to attract students. Not only are the public school students getting free tuition but now the government is even willing to pay them to go to school!