About The Author

John E. Coons

John E. Coons is a professor of law, emeritus, University of California at Berkeley, and author with Stephen D. Sugarman of "Private Wealth and Public Education" and "Education by Choice."
09/18/20
John E. Coons
Official reports of public school budgets and spending seldom have been easy for the common taxpayer, like myself, to understand...
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09/11/20
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The rulers of our teacher unions and those of allied non-teaching school staff need at long last identify and explain...
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07/24/20
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Little Miss Ruffit Cried, “Mom, lets slough it Who needs that school anyway?” Said Mom, “Dear, we do. Must work...
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07/17/20
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If all want sense, God takes a text And preaches patience. The Church Porch, Geo. Spencer Now that the U.S....
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07/07/20
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“Like to one more rich in hope.” Twelfth Night, Shakespeare The media are calling the long-awaited U.S. Supreme Court decision...
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07/03/20
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“I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.” -- Henry IV, Shakespeare Throughout the last half-century, the leading argument...
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06/19/20
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The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there...
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06/05/20
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According to the U.S. Department of Education, our systems of public schools spend (in adjusted dollars) nearly four times what...
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05/29/20
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“School choice is a political hobby of the rich.” So goes a common indictment of the effort to subsidize parents’...
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04/30/20
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The leader of our teachers unions, national and local, appear to live in dread of our states subsidizing choice of...
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