Activists and school choice proponents believe in choice very strongly. Along with supporting the cause, many of them do extensive research on the issue and contribute financially. It is a serious issue, and I am grateful for the people that make it come to light.
School funding, school choice, and the monopoly on education were strong issue’s with the late Jack Wenders. He was highly interested in the downfalls of the bureaucracy of public schools and the monopolistic attitude in which they are ran. He felt parental choice and market incentives could solve some of these problems. Wenders passed away last November leaving millions to the Cato Institute. The Cato Insititute is a policy think tank in Washington D.C. It examines the ideas of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace.
In an article Wenders wrote for The Cato Journal, he shows that 36 of the expenditures of public schools are wasted. This goes to show schools need to be more accountable for their expenditures and proves the schools do not need more money. He also published pieces in Cato’s Regulation. His legacy lives on in many ways, and we hope his research and support for parental choice and reforming education is makes a difference.
Hopefully, we can all learn from the lessons he was teaching us. We need to reform our education system. Our children need to be inspired, they need to learn, and they need to be taught properly. The time is now to change the education monopoly and make it something that actually works.
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