President Bush’s latest, we’ve been given the recipe for destroying private schools: White House counselor Ed Gillespie, describing Bush’s plans for a new school initiative, said it would be called “Pell Grants for Kids.” If approved by Congress, it would provide money for poor kids in struggling schools so they could shift to private schools or a better public school outside their district. Federal assistance for private schooling will do (for private schools) exactly what federal assistance did to higher education. As more students strive for a limited number of seats, costs will increase. And as long as the federal government continues to subsidize the expense, the costs will increase without bounds. Rising costs will crowd out some of the non-poor who were previously able to afford private … Read entire article »