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Regarding the March 17 editorial, “New York, Chicago, and the war on charter schools,” the problem isn’t with charter schools but with the continuation of the top-down, “we know best” design. A freedom-driven, bottom-up design is far superior.
On average, Illinois spends just over $13,000 per pupil per year. Let’s put parents 100 percent in charge of how and where this money is spent in some sort of state-regulated environment. This one change, which doesn’t cost an extra dime, will transform public education.
I don’t claim to have the answers to every problem confronting public education, but I do know the system that will most assuredly find it. That system is freedom.
— John Conlin, President, End the Education Plantation, Inc.
