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City Schools Update

August 3, 2005 |

The cry from the Education Industrial Complex is always for more money… Which is par for the course for any government monopoly that forces an entire population to pay into it regardless of what folks would otherwise do with their money. True to form, Pittsburgh is among the most expensive school districts per student in the state, yet its results are near the bottom. I’m sure the Pennsylvania Education Association will have a boatload of excuses, because certainly the system isn’t broken.

I will grant them some leeway.. and the article linked mentions another contributing factor — community issues. Certainly the inner city is plagued by many other problems, including a breakdown of the family, subsidized poverty creating behavior, and the war on drugs. But that is too easy a cop out, still. The worst schools are always in the areas with the least mobility among citizens. Those areas where folks are more likely to be able to abandon a region, and cut off the tax supply to the schools, well… those always have the best schools.

Supply of quality output meets demand. It is that simple.


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