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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Oregon Senate Passes Largest School Budget in State History
Description: Full text: Yesterday, the Oregon Senate overwhelmingly approved a $9.3 billion education budget. That amounts to $11,800 per student—and that doesn’t count the money from local sources.
What do we get from that kind of spending? We get the third worst graduation rate in the country and a middle-of-the-pack ranking in college preparedness.
What could we get with that kind of money?
One thing you don’t hear much in the mainstream media is that the average private school tuition is about $9,800 a year. Think about that: Our kids can get a private school...