Education Matters US

To see what the Washington DC Schools can teach us lets first look at some of their financial data as outlined in the article from National Center for Education Statistics (NCES):

Now the condition of the schools (from linked article):

And finally, the education outcomes for all these expenditures with the 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Eight Grade results (from linked article):

The expenditures in the Washington DC school system teach us a very powerful lesson. That lesson is that more money is not the answer to solving the crisis in education we face in this nation. The numbers in DC also demonstrate that no amount of money will ever overcome the inefficiencies, ineptitude, corruption, and unaccountability of the bureaucrats who run the government schools.

There is a solution that is simple, yet elegant. The plan will empower parents by allowing them to choose the best school for their child. Parental empowerment will force all schools to earn the trust of parents. Parental empowerment will save taxpayers money. Parental Empowerment gets parents more involved in their child’s education. Parental empowerment will raise standards. And the best aspect of Parental Empowerment is that it raises the educational outcome of all children.

Here is the outline of the plan: