[re_nortex]

More than a third of California's African American public high school students dropped out before graduation day, a startling number and one that's on the rise, according to 2009 data released Tuesday.

The operative phrase in the article is "public high school". Translate that to government-run and the meaning becomes self-evident.

As long as the government runs educational facilities, the system will remain broken. Add the corrupting influence of union teachers to that fetid recipe and the result is disaster.

The business of education is best handled by private enterprise in the free-market with the profit motive as the incentive to drive results.

[ari-freedom]

“The business of education is best handled by private enterprise in the free-market with the profit motive as the incentive to drive results. “

Only if the parents and kids actually want the best education. Otherwise, you’ll just end up with schools with the best basketball programs.

[Yaelle]

Bingo. Public schooling wAs a good idea that doesn’t work.