Every parent wants to ensure that their child receives the best education available. Modern residential segregation is driven at least in part by income inequality and parents seeking out the best possible school districts for their children By investing more money in our public schools — and helping ensure that every public school is a great one — my plan will address one of the key drivers of residential segregation.
If a school’s competence and teaching methods are not put to the test of free-market competition, if schools are not punished for incompetence by going out of business, if teachers are not punished for incompetence by being fired, no amount of money in the world will improve the schools.
The Irish constitution requires the state to “endeavour to supplement and give reasonable aid to private and corporate educational initiative, and, when the public good requires it, provide other educational facilities …