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From: tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: school textbooks
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Date: Sat, 3-May-86 05:48:59 EDT
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In article <422@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.ARPA writes:

>The only solution I see is to reduce politics in education,
>which in practice probably means supporting a transition to
>private schools.  This could be done by a rebate of the public-
>school portion of a family's taxes when they send their child
>to a private school.  (The idea is usually called "tax credits
>for education".)  Given the government's tendency to operate
>in areas where it has no legitimate business, it would take a
>substantial "grass-roots" movement to get this idea adopted.

Hear, hear! At last Gwyn and I have some common ground of
agreement.