Money Should Follow Kids - Q&A with Reason Foundation's Lisa Snell

What's the best way to bypass the centralized bureaucracies that run America's school system? Reason Foundation Director of Education Lisa Snell is an advocate of simply attaching money to kids, so when a student leaves a failing school so does a portion of its funding.

Reason.tv sat down with Snell to talk about how this simple reform can transform public education.

This interview is part of National School Choice Week, a non-partisan initiative to raise awareness of how competition and choice can transform K-12 education.

Approximately 2 minutes. Filmed by Jim Epstein and Meredith Bragg, and edited by Epstein. Interview by Nick Gillespie.

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• national school choice week
• voucher
• charter schools
• economic

[sleedolfine15]

Poor children are prisoners of the public school system.

[nicademus1974]

30 years!?! Hate to break it to ya lady but we aint got 30 months left.

[Ven3z01an0]

can we afford 30 years of mis-educated self-entitled idiots with the power to vote?

[Pdrum2]

@Leavon Yeah but most teachers support this garbage so I do put fault on most of them

[Pdrum2]

@jkmatt1 Part of the problem is the bad parents that don't care that think the schools should do everything, no they are not prisoners of parents I agree there are bad parents, do you want them to be worse?

[InMooseWeTrust]

The money follows the people in medicare and higher education, but would Nick consider these two programs to be successful?

[mangoswiss]

30 years! I hope you're wrong. My baby is due in May and it'll be grown up by then. I live in the UK though. Same shit, different country.

[sleedolfine15]

@jkmatt1 This is'nt rocket science. In every area of our lives when we don't like the services we get we can go someplace else to somebody else to get our needs met. If we don't like one brand of canned beans we can buy an alternative brand. You don't like the food in one restaurant, you can go to another. It works,yet this simple,effective formula we refuse to apply to education where too many kids are trapped in their crappy local school because of politics. CHOICE IN EDUCATION IS A RIGHT!

[yakyakyak69]

Gov't ALWAYS fails, cost too much and leads to the corruption of cronyism.

[SomethingSea1]

@dayvidiot Since it's federal loans... yep, yours. Let's spend tax money in better ways! (I mean, yeah, it's theft, but better to spend it better than worse, y'know?)

[Thorbie]

@Chad9976 Then he is not Nick Gillespie. He is Clark Kent. Lol.

[jkmatt1]

@sleedolfine15 No poor children are prisoners of bad parenting. If you treat school as a daycare what do you really expect.  If Charter schools are so wonderful why do put out students who are behavior problem or cant measure up? If you take that ability away then what your left with is a public school. So what being fixed?