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One thing we could do in this state to $ave several MILLION$ of dollar$ would be to have a statewide School Voucher System that allowed parents of K-12 students a choice of where to send their children to school (either public or private).

We (the tax payers) are currently spending an average of almost $10,000 annually per student on the poorly managed and fiscally irresponsible Seattle Education Assoc./NEA/WEA union controlled Washington public schools.

If parents wanted to send their kids to the ineffective, overpriced and poorly managed Seattle Education Assoc./WEA/NEA controlled public schools, they'd have that choice.

If they wanted to send there kids to more effectively managed and less expensive private schools that had greater percentage of its students graduating with higher test scores and attending college, they would have that choice too.

The competition for $$'s from competing schools would eventually force public schools to teach more effectively and to operate lean and mean like private schools have to now, and you'ld see A LOT of pork cut from the public schools. And you'ld see an over-all improvement in the quality of education that our children receive--as they say, 'a rising tide lifts all boats'.