Or, that if they are, all the good students will leave the bad schools and they will get even worse. The only problem with that is, more money doesn't seem to help. True, we get lower class sizes and more pay for teachers. But test scores don't go up. D.C. Per capita spending per student is among the highest in the nation.
Test scores are among the lowest.
And there are 3,000 central office administrators for 100,000 pupils. I mean if command and control rather than competition was the best way to do anything, the Soviet Union would still be around and ruling the world. If a public school can't make it, there will be others ready to take its place. That's the nature of competition. Let's remember that we've educated generations of ex-servicemen and women through the G.I. Bill at universities run by Catholics and Baptists alike.