Uncle Miltie (Not the Funny One)
Many conservatives have spent this week celebrating the birthday of Milton Friedman (which was July 31). He was economic adviser to Reagan and couldn't say enough about a free market economic system. His contribution to public education (from Wikipedia): (bold mine) In his 1955 article "The Role of Government in Education" Friedman proposed supplementing publicly operated schools with privately run but publicly funded schools through a system of school vouchers . [ 48 ] Reforms similar to those proposed in the article were implemented in, for example, Chile in 1981 and Sweden in 1992. [ 49 ] In 1996, Friedman, together with his wife, founded The Foundation for Educational Choice to advocate school choice and vouchers. The Texas Observer tells the story : By repeating the arguments Friedman made 50 years ago , for starters, and decking them out in red, white and blue. As Donna Campbell reminded the room at the TPPF event: ”Folks, we’re in Texas. ...