Comment by matthewdgreen
7 days ago
Funding public universities and giving them the mission to keep tuition costs low. Public universities are capable of providing enormous value to students, but over the past two decades their funding has been substantially cut. The result is that those schools became more reliant on expensive out-of-state tuition, which in turn means competing with private institutions for students, which in turn means building more luxuries (awesome gyms) and not focusing on value for money.
So, giving even more taxpayer money to the education cartel, then. Got it. Good luck with that. Over the past several decades staffing in administrative positions has exponentially ballooned all across the education system, starting with grade schools, while academic metrics moved in the opposite direction. Now the question is, do we continue setting even more taxpayer money on fire, or is there a better way?