Author: Seth Cox

My message at the legislature was that vouchers was a Trojan Horse for private schools. It would turn them into government schools when the regulations came. This article from the conservative CATO group backs that up. Vouchers aren’t the answer. Smaller districts are.http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/indiana-voucher-law-a-defeat-for-educational-freedom“In reality, the voucher program is a tactical victory for highly constrained choice…

http://smallerschoolsresearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/deregulation-of-public-education.html The link listed above is a proposal made in response to a request from the Utah State Legislature in 2003. It proposes structural changes to our system of public education, changes to the infrastructure, changes in teacher training, and a simplifying of the government intrusion into local schools to more fully empower parents and…

Recent media articles have given a mixed message about the successes of smaller schools. The trouble is two fold. First, smaller schools were never a guarantee of success. It only made success more likely – probably more likely than any other factor changeable from outside the family. Some studies say that the only higher predictor…