Financing Education
, by Quade, Quentin L.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781560002550 | 1560002557
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/1/1996
Lack of family structure, violence in the schools, and overcrowded classrooms spur a never-ending cry for "reforms" to confront such issues. Quade cuts through the alarming din to what he feels is the real heart of the matter -- the ways society assigns tax dollars dedicated to education, what he refers to as educational finance monopoly -- or EFM. An alternative to EFM, at work in various other democracies, is programs aimed to permit school choice without financial penalty. In such systems, parents determine the allocation of education-dedicated tax dollars, and can select schools most suited to their children. Financing Education examines the major problems of American kindergarten through twelfth-grade education, establishes the causal connections with EFM, offers school choice without financial penalty as a powerful and obvious cure, and examines several American school choice proposals.