From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 11 10:47:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA18887 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cliffy.statsci.com (root@cliffy.statsci.com [206.63.206.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA18877; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from knife.statsci.com (knife [206.63.206.137]) by cliffy.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/Hub) with ESMTP id KAA11515; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:47:01 -0700 Received: from knife.statsci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knife.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/UUCP) with ESMTP id KAA17464; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708111746.KAA17464@knife.statsci.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: ac199@hwcn.org cc: Jamie Bowden , Chuck Robey , Annelise Anderson , "Jonathan M. Bresler" , hoek@hwcn.org, softweyr@xmission.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations References: In-reply-to: From: Scott Blachowicz Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:46:59 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > There are schools which (desparately?) need more money, but there > are some which probably have more than they need. Possibly...but I doubt you're going to find many schools that will give up their funding without a fight. But back to the overall funding levels - it seems like a voucher system would necessarily take money away from the public schools. Now, it's possible (as Annelise mentions) that it comes from new public funding, but that means that either people's taxes (in general) get increased or the money gets shuffled from some other location. I wouldn't think that either of those funding methods is likely to be popular and/or provide enough money. Also, I don't know how the public schools are typically funded...does all of their money come from the per-student formula? I would think that a LOT of their expenses (e.g. facilities improvements) would suffer if that's the case and the attendance starts declining. John S. Dyson wrote: > This is one place where the competition aspect comes into play. I could > imagine where a school goes below critical mass -- administration/teachers > go away, and then the school is reconstituted in a year or so. That would > have the advantage of disrupting disfunctional behaviors (both by school > administration, and student culture.) I have trouble seeing how the school gets "reconstituted" - where are the incentive and funding to do that if everyone's gone away to the private schools? Oh well...maybe I'm just missing something (or lucky) - I've always been in the public school system (graduated high school in the early 80's) and never had any problems (always been either in suburbia or a college town, though). And my Mom, the left wing wacko, probably had SOME influence on me, too..:-)). Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org