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so good. What a day. All right, well let's start with all the good news. Do you want the good news first? Of course you do. Of course you do. In pandemic news, the new single shot vaccination from J&J looks like it has 85 percent efficacy. And if you don't like the word efficacy, well you haven't said it out loud. Try it. Try it at home. Say "efficacy." It's fun. It is. It has 85 percent efficac…
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Here's some more good news. As you know, I think over 20 states have legislation to associate funding for school with the children instead of the school so that the child could go to a different competing school, a private school for example, and the funding would move with them, the government funding. So that is a really big trend that's happening now. Corey DeAngelis on Twitter — you'll find him on Twitter — does the most tweeting about this productively. He's most involved in this and he does more than tweeting obviously. He's active in this space.
But a new study says, according to Corey, that charter schools are 35 percent more cost effective and produce a 46 percent larger return on investment than district schools do. Do you trust that statistic? I don't. You know this is a sort of statistic that you want to trust because it agrees with you already. I want it to be true that having competition in anything makes things better, just as a general statement, no matter the field. If you add competition to it, it should make things better.
So I want it to be true that these charter schools are more cos
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t effective. But then you would also have to factor in what happens to the school they left behind. Did it get worse? What happened to the average? So I don't think things like this can be studied actually. So I wouldn't totally trust this number. But it does, but at the very least it can help you size things. So I think this at least is evidence that charter schools are not worse. But I don't thi…
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