Prometheus 6

I quote from Economics Explained : Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going, page 161:

No society has ever become literate solely based upon private education. Yet nothing pays off economically for a society more than having an educated work force.

The need for education on a social level is an economic enabler. It's the most important a factor in increasing productivity. It's one of the major factors in the consistant increase in the USofA's GDP. It is infrastructure.

Attack on Charters
An attempt in the D.C. Council to undercut a relative success in the city's educational system
Monday, June 9, 2008; A16

DISTRICT OFFICIALS may well have come up with a way to stem the exodus of children from the troubled public schools: Just make it harder for popular charter schools to set up shop. A mean-spirited proposal to impose new restrictions on charter schools threatens to undo one of the few good-news stories in Washington education.