and are now stomping on it with their spike-studded jackboots.

People believe private voucher schools will be better.

Like many ALEC efforts, this one was first implemented in Wisconsin. ALEC has dozens of bills related to this topic, along with books and analysis. in 1993, ALEC gave its first "Adam Smith Free Enterprise Award" to school privatization advocate and funder Richard DeVos. In the early 1990s, under the leadership of longtime ALEC member Tommy Thompson, Wisconsin was the first state in the nation to implement a voucher program using public funds to send children to private schools.

http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/Privatizing_Public_Education,_Higher_Ed_Policy,_and_Teachers

Very Flawed analysis and nothing more than an opinion piece with poor facts

THe article assumes all money these companies made would or should have been taxed in the US instead of the countries whereit was earned.

Lets see what about the other countries do they have the right to tax the way they want to on business done there?

The world is global and so are profits.

A better focus on reforming tax laws is better than complaining about companies complying with the current system,.


Its quieter on these boards about it but the truth is most of the deregulation that allows this was started under Clinton not Reagan or Bush 1.

Yes education is important and many believe in under financed but no one can explain to me how why in america we spend way more per student than many of the countries far ahead of us in academic excellence.


Create an incentive to repatriate these products or change the current laws but complaining that "Hey the are following the rules and making extra money" rings hollow to me.

Pretty close to middle of the pack, really.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/sep/11/education-compared-oecd-country-pisa#spending

Now who are all those thrifty countries who are far ahead in academic excellence? Name a few, please.

Lots of excellent data in there. Thanks, mnbperrin.

but over 10 countries that spend less per student outpace us. I admit allot of it is cultural and the role schools/education play in a childs life.

But lots of countries spend less yet perform better.

Edit not: My step father was assistant superintendent for a large school system for years. Prior to that he helped in a landmark legal case that shook public education in NC for poor counties. In nc the local communities provide much of the support for schools but by state constitution it is the states responsibility to ensure even poor counties can provide that education thus the state now give extra monies to poor counties who cant afford to subside their schools.

Many studies over the course of decades show that test scores are tied to poverty rates. Those countries that outpace only do so when the child poverty rate isn't taken into account. Deal with that, and we're at the top of the pack.

And will you agree that US spending is just middle of the road?

In fact, here in Texas, per-pupil spending has been cut 27% by the state in the last two years, and we're supposed to be a hot economy.

Funding for schools should be a state priority. Shifting it to the local counties leads to huge diffreces in quality of education. This is not to say some counties dont chose to invest more intheir school with suppluments but the base funding fro mthe state should atleast be adequate. In our state that was not the case.

To assume tax liability should be based on Gross receipts is crazy and very intellectually dishonest. Even President Obamas taxes do equal his tax rate on his gross.

In CT we are giving tax breaks to companies sometimes roughly a million $ per job. Welcome to Corporatocracy.

DU teachers' relatively concerted responses to the question, what's really happened to public education since the 70's? Defunding was a big part of the answer: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11246743

Our evil repuke governor Core-butt is trying to gut public education while offering magnanimous tax breaks to corporations.

In addition, the state offers programs giving tax breaks to corporations for funding private schools and offering scholarships to students who wish to transfer from "failing" (code word for public) schools.

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/05/pennsylvania-approves-private-school-tax-credit-program/

might be rooting for public education to die? If it dies, then they not only get to run their own schools (for a fee of course, and they get to choose who learns what), they'll also have a surplus of less educated workers, who will have no other choice but to work for whatever low wages they can get, under all kinds of conditions.

I can't remember which republican said it, but hasn't the right hated higher education, because people who have more education tend to vote democrat?