Withering Competition

By |2014-01-09T09:42:24-06:00February 15th, 2013|Categories: Books, Education, Free Markets, Political Economy|Tags: |

According to the Washington Post, Washington DC’s public school district is planning to close 15 under-enrolled traditional schools: “If we don’t become very serious about marketing and competing with charter schools," [DC Councilman David] Catania said, “traditional public schools, as we know them, will become a thing of the past.” Charter schools have grown quickly [...]