USA Today: Parental Choice Popular in Sweden

(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)

Sweden, of all places, went for government funding of private school attendance in 1992. The quasi-market system has proven very popular, so much so that even the teacher unions don’t complain about it.

Perhaps next they will go really crazy and outsource their bus services, to the delight of Greg and Andy.

One Response to USA Today: Parental Choice Popular in Sweden

  1. Greg Forster's avatar Greg Forster says:

    I wish! Andy wants bus services transferred to a different government agency (one whose core mission is transportation) rather than privatized. He doesn’t want anything to be THAT efficient! Like the Greeks, his motto is “nothing too much.” But even Aristotle said you can never go too far in the right direction . . .

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