{"id":39807,"date":"2017-08-17T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39807"},"modified":"2017-08-16T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T14:50:23","slug":"words-numbers-the-illusion-of-school-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/17\/words-numbers-the-illusion-of-school-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Words &#038; Numbers: The Illusion of School Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oF0NllLaU-I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 16 Aug 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In private schools, as in private enterprise in general, poor performance drives funding away by driving paying customers away. Yet in public schools, poor performance is used as an excuse for increased funding. With incentives like these, is it any wonder that public schools are failing our children so badly? Isn\u2019t it time to inject some competition into the system?<\/p>\n<p>Education for all is a worthy wish. So is food for all. But we don\u2019t force poor people to eat state-produced food. Even food stamp recipients get to choose where to shop. Why shouldn\u2019t beneficiaries of public education spending get to choose where to send their kids?<\/p>\n<p>Our hosts James R. Harrigan and Antony Davies want to know&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 16 Aug 2017 In private schools, as in private enterprise in general, poor performance drives funding away by driving paying customers away. Yet in public schools, poor performance is used as an excuse for increased funding. With incentives like these, is it any wonder that public schools are failing our children so badly? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25,79],"tags":[374,755,1026,91,315],"class_list":["post-39807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-economics","category-education","tag-children","tag-incentives","tag-microeconomics","tag-poverty","tag-wealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-am3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39808,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39807\/revisions\/39808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}