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Idea to send: |
| Topic | Education |
| Content | Privatize all education in OK. The private sector in OK has already proven that it can do a better job of educating Oklahomans for less than the public systems. All one has to do is compare standardized outcomes of students at private schools to those at public, along with the cost per head of educating them at their respective institutions. Places like OCS, CHA, OCA, Mt. Saint Mary's, and many others are demonstrating that they do it better with less.
Implementation:
1) Announce that in the summer of 2009, all educational assets (land, buildings, buses, computers, desks, chairs, teacher contracts, everything) will be auctioned to the highest bidders. This includes local school systems from elementary through high school, as well as the public universities such as OU and OSU.
2) Let no more public tax dollars ever be spent on education in OK, except to return tax dollars to the tax payer each year so that they can then decide where to send their children to school.
3) Use the billions or even trillions raised from the auction to
a) pay off all education-related indebtedness
b) fully fund the current teacher retirement pension system, and
c) return the remainder to the tax payers.
Let OK lead the way and show the nation that if free enterprise, competition, and freedom of choice are capable of sustaining the greatest economy in world history, ending slavery, and crushing communism, it is certainly good enough to educate its citizens. |
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