Cato’s Andrew Coulson responds here to recent statements by Education Secretary Arne Duncan on the reasons for malfunctioning schools and teachers who cheat to make test scores look better. I doubt that Duncan will absorb the lesson, but the essential problem with public education is that it breaks the connection between the provision of education and the payment for it. The schools don’t get their funds from satisfied parents. They get them from satisfied politicians.
by George Leef