Corey DeAngelis
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I think it originally was funded by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, and it still exists. There's professors there. My advisor is named Patrick Wolfe. And the Journal of School Choice is actually housed in that department. And Patrick Wolf did a lot of the early evaluations of voucher programs, like in D.C., for example.
They were able to use random lottery to determine the different outcomes for kids in the public schools versus the private schools. Much like a medical trial, you do the placebo for the kids who lose the lottery, which is the public school system business as usual.
If you win the lottery to get a voucher to go to a private school, Wolf's evaluation, for example, in 2013 found about a 30 percent increase in the likelihood of graduating from high school from getting more educational opportunities through the voucher. And you can say it's – Yeah, randomized control trial.
So you can say with a big enough sample with certainty that this is not because of the family characteristic of the student. It's not because of the student's racial background or their income. It's because of them getting a better opportunity to go to a better school. And so I did that kind of research when I started. My first study was actually with Dr. Wolf.
And we found that the Milwaukee voucher program that started in 1990, we found a huge reduction in crime later on in life. Oh, yeah. Shouldn't be very surprising. You're more likely to graduate high school.
We didn't control for graduation, but it's probably closely linked. If you're more likely to graduate, you're probably going to be more likely to get a job, less likely to be involved with the criminal justice system.
2024.
Pretty recent.
What's the title of that? Mediocrity, right? Right. 40 Ways Government Schools Are Failing Today's Students. And it was on the 40th anniversary of the Nation at Risk report. which came out, which basically said that, look, our outcomes are horrendous and things haven't gotten any better since then. In some cases, they've gotten worse and we spend a lot more money than we did back then.
We spend about $20,000 per student per year now, which is... about 52% higher than average private school tuition in this country. That spending in the government schools has increased by about 164%, inflation adjusted since 1970. Have the outcomes gotten 164% better? No, obviously not. But it's because they're not focusing on math and reading.
They're focusing on gender ideology and critical race theory in the schools. And if you're focusing on those things and teaching kids to hate your country, it shouldn't surprise us that the academic outcomes aren't getting any better.
Social work might They have the lowest scores on all the SATs and other academic credentials. And they also have a monopoly, a geographic monopoly, when it comes to the K-12 government school system, where in most places in America, you live where you live, and you're assigned to a school just based on your address, which gives them no incentive to spend additional dollars wisely.
I mean, just imagine if you had to shop at a government grocery store that you were assigned to based on where you lived and they had empty shelves, no food. And when they did have food, imagine if you got food poisoning where it was expired.
And if you wanted to go somewhere else, they'd tell you to go complain to the grocery board who wouldn't listen to you and would try to cut off your mic, which is what happens with the school boards right now. And if you had to just move houses to get access to a better grocery store, that would make zero sense.
Or if you had to pay twice, basically once through taxes for the government grocery store you're not using, and then again out of pocket for a grocery store that actually provided you with healthy food, that's what we have with the government school system today.
You cannot go somewhere else unless you pay twice, essentially, and low-income families are basically just screwed in the worst failure factories that we call public schools today. In places like Chicago, they have like 33 public schools with 0% math proficiency rates. And they spend about $30,000 per kid. And guess what?
Their teachers union boss, Stacey Davis Gates, she sends her own kid to a private school. She knows better than anybody else that their schools are not working for kids. And that's the main problem that I see. And everything else trickles out from that monopoly issue. They don't have an incentive.
And then there's a teacher certification monopoly. And that trickles down from the university level into the K-12 system.
Yeah, I did my bachelor's and master's in economics. Oh, yeah. And I had a professor there. John Merrifield was his name. He's now a retired professor. But he was probably the only free market professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio that I knew of. And I had him. I took all of his classes. He was my advisor.
He was affiliated with the Friedman Foundation at the time, which is now called EdChoice, which is a school choice advocacy group. And he was the one who directed me or suggested to me at least three different times, hey, you should probably do this PhD program. And I ultimately took his advice, and I'm glad that I did. And that's how I look at the school system.
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