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"Imagine, for instance, if the entire Bush tax-cuts were given solely to the federal education system in the form of teacher salaries. Let's cap salaries around 50k for new teachers, and maybe 100k for tenured teachers for the time being. With this influx of money, it creates demand for teachers, and considering the state of the public education system, we need better education. It's a win win situation. Our children get a better education, and teachers get better salaries. With more income, teachers can spend more on houses, cars, consumer goods, etc... which would spur the economy."
I would actually go for that* if your side would allow vast structural changes to be made to the educational system, including a "Union Busting" effort (comparable to TR vs. Standard Oil) in which Dubya could bust up the NEA into regional or state entities. Because giving teachers a bunch of money without the means of improving their profession means you're throwing money away at the current crop of "bad teachers."
See, it's not the lack of salary opportunities that makes for bad education, it's a bad educational system and that is what we have. People don't mind the money... they mind the job.
*Or block grants to the states since, as Wraith noted, there is no "Federal education system."
I would actually go for that* if your side would allow vast structural changes to be made to the educational system, including a "Union Busting" effort (comparable to TR vs. Standard Oil) in which Dubya could bust up the NEA into regional or state entities. Because giving teachers a bunch of money without the means of improving their profession means you're throwing money away at the current crop of "bad teachers."
See, it's not the lack of salary opportunities that makes for bad education, it's a bad educational system and that is what we have. People don't mind the money... they mind the job.
*Or block grants to the states since, as Wraith noted, there is no "Federal education system."
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