?What's worse: supporting public funding for private schools, or allowing poor children to stay in chronically failing schools? The research is clear -- a couple of years in a row in an ineffective classroom can change a child's entire life trajectory. We can't and shouldn't take that gamble.'' *
?Michelle Rhee, Founder & CEO, Students First
?Public Funding for Private Schools -- How Can I Ask Parents to Accept Less than I'd Want For My Kids?,? Huffington Post
$1.6 Billion
Proposed cut in state aid to Pennsylvania public schools under House GOP plan
?Pa. House GOP plan to budget more money for ed,? Bloomberg Businessweek
* This quote does not necessarily represent the views of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute