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Public Schools: Make Them Private
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Milton Friedman
Country: United States

Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman proposes a voucher system to privatize public schooling. Explains why private enterprise and choice is the solution to the deterioration of public schools. "There is no respect in which inhabitants of a low-income neighborhood are so disadvantaged as in the kind of schooling they can get for their children." (1995)

10 great benefits of educational freedom
Source: Separation of School and State Alliance
Country: United States

Nothing can match freedom for producing a huge variety of quality products at affordable prices. This is just as true for education as it is for clothing, cars, and computers.

Quotes about school choice
Source: CEO America
Country: United States

A collection of quotes from teachers, politicians, and parents.

How Special Interests Would Kill Day Care Choice
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Patrick F. Fagan
Country: United States

"Congress is poised to take the first step toward creating a new federal bureaucracy to regulate the provision of day care in the United States. Under the guise of giving lower-paid federal workers a higher employee benefit, this new bureaucracy would have sweeping powers to determine the child care options available to federal workers." (7/30/99)

Choice scholarships throw open exit doors
Source: Heartland Institute
Country: United States

A privately funded effort to provide children an alternative to tax-funded, government-run schools has been deluged with applications from families desperate to flee the public education monopoly. From Heartland's School Reform News. (6/99)

Thomas Paine on tuition vouchers
Source: School Choices
Country: United States

"Public schools do not answer the general purpose of the poor," wrote Paine in "The Rights of Man."

100-word answers on separation of school and state
Source: Separation of School and State Alliance
Country: United States

Succinct responses to frequently asked questions on separation of school and state. A great introduction to the main themes.

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