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April 07, 2008

Sticker Shock

In yesterday's Washington Post, Andrew Coulson laid out full school choice as an educationally and fiscally compelling option for DC's public school students who are currently being undereducated - to the tune of $24,600/pupil - by a district "bureaucracy so Byzantine it would give Rube Goldberg an aneurysm." He looks at the ledger more closely on the Cato blog, noting that, ultimately, "the real cost of this dysfunctional system is not measured in dollars and cents but in the hopes and futures it has destroyed."

Posted by Edspresso on April 7, 2008 11:36 AM | Permalink

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