The last several Viewpoint discussions generated numerous passionate responses, many of which we reprinted in this issue of PCI. In addition, there were a number of voice mail messages that are not included.
A piece in the March 2006 issue of NewsMax is pretty blunt about stating that more money will not solve our education problems. I thought the following excerpt was quite telling. "If you divide the Department of Education's figure for total spending on K-12 education by the department's count of K-12 students, it works out to about $10,000 per student. For a class of 25 kids, that's $250,000 per classroom." And so the question remains: If we currently spend more money per student than many other countries, why do they outrank us on international test scores, particularly in math and science? Maybe it is time we take back our schools from the bureaucrats.