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...systems like New York City's, that is more than $5,500 a year, higher than the tuition at some private schools. Government would still have a role: private schools, as they do today, would have to abide by state certification standards and could not racially discriminate. Chubb and Moe also suggest that there could be extra financial incentives to encourage schools to accept problem students. Thus even potential dropouts would have an alternative to their local...
...Opportunity. The Reagan Administration tepidly tried to revive vouchers in the mid-1980s, and George Bush gave lip service to the concept during the 1988 campaign. But the current intellectual momentum stems from the publication of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools by political scientists John Chubb and Terry Moe. This influential book bears the imprimatur of the Brookings Institution, Washington's leading liberal think tank...
...first glance, the book seems unlikely to send anyone to the educational barricades. It is a laborious statistical analysis of the crisis in public education. But in their final two chapters, Chubb and Moe suddenly transform themselves into radical deconstructionists. They theorize that "excessive bureaucratization and centralization are no historical accident . . . They are inevitable consequences of America's institutions of democratic control." The more political pressure is exerted to improve the schools, they argue, the more bureaucracy is created to monitor the new reform nostrums. In their view, only a choice system that frees the schools from political pressures entirely...
...most controversial aspect of any voucher plan (a term that Chubb and Moe avoid because of its Friedmanesque heritage) is the idea of permitting private and even parochial schools to compete with public institutions. But Chubb insists that choice plans that allow open enrollment only within the public- school system will not provide enough competition or sufficient diversity. "Public-school choice," he argues, "is merely a demand-side test. There's no change on the supply side...
...harshest attacks against Chubb and Moe have come from some of the educators most sympathetic to incremental reform. "Their book is a profound example of the intellectual community's abandoning our most important democratic institution," claims Bill Honig, the California superintendent of public instruction. The choice model of rewarding schools for attracting students rather than successfully educating them troubles Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. "If your goal is merely to recruit students," Shanker says, "you can do that by offering a trip to Disneyland or with a good football team...