Is Public Education Failing America?

While the government believes that public education is too important to trust to the free enterprise system, government spending on education is almost twice what it was in 1980 (adjusted for inflation) as student achievement has flat lined.  The governmental system wants to coddle ineffective systems such as Head Start as President Obama dumps another one billion dollars into it.  What will bring a heartbeat again to American education?  According to people who test students internationally, the two things that ultimately affect student achievement are parental choice  in the school their children attend and schools having the right to experiment.

Read more:  http://www.newsmax.com/Stossel/HeadStart-Obama-vouchers-JohnStossel/2010/02/17/id/350094