| If more money meant better education for
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| | percentile range, compared with the 50th
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| our kids, our public schools should have
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| | percentile national average for
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| vastly improved over the last 75 years.
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| | public-school students across the
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| Yet the reverse is true. In dollars
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| | country. The study found that in every
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| adjusted for inflation, public schools
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| | subject and grade level of the ITBS
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| spent about $876 per year for elementary
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| | battery of tests, home-schooled students
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| and secondary school students in 1930,
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| | scored significantly higher than public
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| when student literacy rates were close to
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| | and private school students. On average,
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| 90 percent. In contrast, in 2003 public
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| | homeschool students in the first to
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| schools spent about $7500 per student,
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| | fourth grades performed one grade level
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| while literacy rates fell to the 50-70
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| | higher than comparable public and private
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| percent level in many public schools. In
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| | school students. By the fifth grade, the
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| the year 2000, the five states whose
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| | gap began to widen, and by the eighth
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| students got the highest SAT scores were
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| | grade, the average home-schooled student
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| North Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
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| | performed four grade levels above the
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| and South Dakota. Yet, per-pupil spending
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| | national average. Home-schooling parents
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| in North Dakota ranked forty-first among
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| | not only give their kids a superior
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| the states, in Iowa twenty-fifth,
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| | education, but spend far less than public
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| Wisconsin tenth, Minnesota sixteenth, and
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| | schools. For example, some excellent
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| South Dakota a lowly forty-eighth. In
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| | phonics reading programs cost less than
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| contrast, the District of Columbia had
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| | $150. Even if we assumed that an average
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| the fourth highest per-student spending
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| | homeschooling parent spent about $1500 a
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| of all the states but ranked almost at
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| | year on learn-to-read or learn-math
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| the bottom of the list (50th out of 50
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| | books, computer learning software, and
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| states and the District of Columbia) in
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| | other learning materials, that is about
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| student achievement. Clearly, there is
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| | one-quarter the average $7500-a-year that
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| little correlation between money spent
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| | public schools spend per student.
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| per student and student achievement. A
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| | Clearly, once again, it is obvious that
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| 1990 Rand Corporation study showed that
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| | more money for public schools does not
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| private Catholic schools do a better job
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| | guarantee a better education for our
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| educating children than public schools.
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| | kids. For over 40 years they have been
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| The study compared thirteen New York City
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| | trying to "fix" the public schools.
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| public, private, and Catholic high
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| | That's long enough. I think that after 40
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| schools that had many minority students.
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| | years we can safely conclude that the
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| Yet, the average annual tuition costs for
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| | government bureaucrats who run these
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| Catholic and Protestant-affiliated
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| | schools are not up to the task of giving
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| schools for the 2002-2003 school year
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| | our kids the great education they
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| were approximately $3500-$4000 per
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| | deserve. Public schools are beyond repair
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| elementary-school pupil and $5500-$6000
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| | and can not be fixed, ever, simply
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| per Secondary school pupil. The average
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| | because they are a government
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| public-school cost per pupil was
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| | owned-and-operated coercive monopoly that
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| approximately $7500. Catholic and
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| | strangles a free market in education and
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| Protestant-affiliated schools therefore
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| | parental choice. Throwing more hundreds
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| give their students a better education
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| | of billions of tax dollars at these
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| for less money than public schools spend.
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| | schools is a complete waste of time and a
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| When we compare the academic record of
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| | criminal waste of precious resources,
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| home-schooled vs. public-school students,
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| | including our children's minds and
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| the cost vs. achievement differences are
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| | future. It's time we scrapped the
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| even more startling. In 1998, the Home
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| | public-school system. Let's just bury
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| School Legal Defense Association
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| | this education dinosaur, once and for
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| commissioned Larry Rudner, statistician
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| | all. Once public schools were scrapped,
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| and measurement expert at the University
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| | we can then give parents back the
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| of Maryland, to do a study on the
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| | thousands of dollars a year they now pay
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| academic achievement levels of
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| | for school taxes or income taxes that
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| home-schooled students. The study tested
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| | propped up the public schools. With these
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| 20,000 home-schooled students on the Iowa
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| | tax refunds, parents can then pay for
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| Test of Basic Skills (ITBS). The study
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| | their own children's education in a
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| found that home-schooled students did
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| | fiercely competitive education free
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| extremely well on the test compared to
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| | market in which the quality of education
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| public school students. Home-schooled
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| | for our kids keeps getting better, while
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| kids scored in the 75th to 85th
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| | tuition costs go down.
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