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There’s a better way. First advocated in 2006, “weighted student funding” increasingly pushes down to the school level not only the dollars but authority, giving principals the ability to do what’s needed for the kids at their school, not what’s decided at the school district level.
Every year, taxpayers must send billions of dollars to Washington in order to fund federal education programs through the U.S. Department of Education and other agencies which then redistribute that money back to individual states through a complex system of formula and competitive grant programs.
As the evidence about the benefits of school choice accumulate,opponents need to start inventing new arguments for opposingpolicies that allow parents to choose the best school for theirchildren.