Archive for April 8th, 2010
And the Public Looting Continues
Yet more evidence surfaces that the charter movement is evolving into little more than a mechanism for private interests to loot from the public treasury. This one is from Philadelphia. [h/t Schools Matter]
City Controller Alan Butkovitz’s investigation of 13 Philadelphia charter schools found repeated examples of complex real estate arrangements in which charters leased or [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2010 under Education Policy, Politics, Schools.
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Public Investment Drives the Boat… Dammit
As a reformed libertarian, I am sympathetic to those who believe that the spirit of competition in the marketplace is the primary engine of innovation, however libertarianism is a belief system that is not well rooted in empirical reality. From the canals of the early 19th century to the satellites making possible all of this [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2010 under Technology, The Dismal Science, What Works.
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