While so-called “Republican” lawmakers in South Carolina were busy approving the centerpiece of U.S. President Barack Obama’s “government first” early childhood education program, the president’s former chief of staff was actually providing parents with more market-based choices in Chicago.
According to The New York Times, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is using public dollars to subsidize a growing number of parochial preschool scholarships in the Windy City.
“The number of Catholic schools in the city receiving taxpayer money for preschool will nearly double,” the Times piece notes of Emanuel’s plan, adding that “across the country, states and districts are increasingly funneling public funds to religious schools, private nursery schools and a variety of community-based nonprofit organizations that conduct preschool classes.”
Emanuel himself is quoted in the story as saying he wants “to use competitiveness to reward the best in the class and not just say because you’re a Head Start or a public school, you win by default.”
Wow …
Hear that, South Carolina “Republicans?”
Obviously Emanuel’s plan is small potatoes – and it doesn’t touch K-12 education (where market-based reform is desperately needed). But still, this website will never criticize government letting parents and communities take a more active role in educating future generations.
Government-run education is a failed experiment, people – especially in South Carolina. And massive funding increases, government-mandated “accountability” and public school “choice” have done nothing to reverse the depressing trend lines.
It is time to turn our most important national obligation – the preparation of future generations of Americans for a globally competitive world – back over to the private sector, and specifically to the parents, churches and community organizations that are ready to do the job government has failed to do.
The only two roles government (at any level) should have in this process? Letting these individuals and groups keep more of their money and staying the hell out of their way …
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Is Sic Willie that big of a fool? The key word is “parochial”. In Chicago that is spelled VOTES.
You’re right on both counts. Maybe Sic Willie doesn’t realize that “parochial” implies Catholics and Polish-Americans are Catholics and Chicago has more even than Warsaw. And we haven’t even mentioned the Irish and the Italians, who ain’t exactly Southern Baptists.
This is part of a long-term plan set up by (potus) and his secret promoters. Emmanuel is in his shorts. I read the documents in the test to get him established as a Chicago resident which allowed him to run for mayor. My conclusion was that he didn’t qualify — along with (potus) he is a fraud and a thug in the continuing tradition of Chicago politics.
Is Sic Willie that big of a fool? The key word is “parochial”. In Chicago that is spelled VOTES.
You’re right on both counts. Maybe Sic Willie doesn’t realize that “parochial” implies Catholics and Polish-Americans are Catholics and Chicago has more even than Warsaw. And we haven’t even mentioned the Irish and the Italians, who ain’t exactly Southern Baptists.
This is part of a long-term plan set up by (potus) and his secret promoters. Emmanuel is in his shorts. I read the documents in the test to get him established as a Chicago resident which allowed him to run for mayor. My conclusion was that he didn’t qualify — along with (potus) he is a fraud and a thug in the continuing tradition of Chicago politics. Cockroaches, all.
With no accountability measures in place, how will we know if the private schools do the job, or will they just hand pick the best and act like they had something to do with the achievement? The fly by night private schools want the money, but don’t want any accountability.
Duh… the number one measure is whether mom or dad has a warm fuzzy feeling that their kid is getting the education the parents believe they need. Otherwise, mom and dad will yank their kid out. Might be that they try the public school system next. Puts the burden back on the schools to focus their resources on education. A private school won’t stay in business very long if they aren’t performing to parents’ expectations — unlike the public school system that is always funded with an almost endless supply of our tax dollars whether it performs or not. But give them a choice!
With no accountability measures in place, how will we know if the private schools do the job, or will they just hand pick the best and act like they had something to do with the achievement? The fly by night private schools want the money, but don’t want any accountability.
Duh… the number one measure is whether mom or dad has a warm fuzzy feeling that their kid is getting the education the parents believe they need. Otherwise, mom and dad will yank their kid out. Might be that they try the public school system next. Puts the burden back on the schools to focus their resources on education. A private school won’t stay in business very long if they aren’t performing to parents’ expectations — unlike the public school system that is always funded with an almost endless supply of our tax dollars whether it performs or not. But give them a choice!
It is not market based reform i you have to divert tax money by one centto ake it work.
They wouldn’t need one cent if the gubmint would quit taking the money out of my pocket Robin. I would have no problem sending my son to private school.
And Hell No I don’t give a crap about the education of the child of some alcoholic drug addicted whore that didn’t fit into the feminazi ideal trying to drown her sorrows instead of working on a solid relationship with the father of the child.
Now here I will gladly donate to when the tax dollars are no longer stolen from my pocket. The sterilization of feminazi’s and the forced repatriation of the children of these scum to the loving parent the courts deny them to.
Have a Great Day Robin the Hoodlum!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.
Frank Pytel
It is not market based reform i you have to divert tax money by one centto ake it work.
They wouldn’t need one cent if the gubmint would quit taking the money out of my pocket Robin. I would have no problem sending my son to private school.
And Hell No I don’t give a crap about the education of the child of some alcoholic drug addicted whore that didn’t fit into the feminazi ideal trying to drown her sorrows instead of working on a solid relationship with the father of the child.
Now here I will gladly donate to when the tax dollars are no longer stolen from my pocket. The sterilization of feminazi’s and the forced repatriation of the children of these scum to the loving parent the courts deny them to.
Have a Great Day Robin the Hoodlum!! :) There won’t be many left with the Demlicans and Republicrats in charge.
Frank Pytel
So is it parochial school vote buying or fly by night private schools that just want money that are the problems here?
It couldn’t possibly be that this liberal mayor sees a problem in his city with poor kids not getting the preschool they need and is trying innovative ways to address that problem, because that doesn’t fit in with your anti-choice narrative of school choice only being for the benefit of the rich, huh?
So is it parochial school vote buying or fly by night private schools that just want money that are the problems here?
It couldn’t possibly be that this liberal mayor sees a problem in his city with poor kids not getting the preschool they need and is trying innovative ways to address that problem, because that doesn’t fit in with your anti-choice narrative of school choice only being for the benefit of the rich, huh?