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MacDonald: There IS a Relationship Between Money and Learning

Before the government interfered, education and health care were managed almost entirely by private interests funded by wealthy benefactors.

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Since the government advanced its monopoly position and the Democrat party found a financial and political interest in it, K-12 education has become unaffordable while consistently delivering substandard results. It hates competition, and it should.

Charter Schools, which in my state are all public schools (read that again), require about a third of the per-student cost of 'traditional' public schools (and sometimes even less), and produce remarkably better results.

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If you think property taxes are a problem, you're not looking at the right problem. If you had 1500 students costing you 31.5 million a year regardless of grade level or results, you could cut that to $ 10.5 million if you sent all those kids to the public charter school instead.

You just saved 21 million every single year.

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