Financing Education: The Struggle between Governmental Monopoly and Parental Control

Lack of family structure, violence in the schools, and overcrowded classrooms spur a never-ending cry for "reforms" to confront such issues. Quentin L. Quade cuts through the alarming din to what he feels is the real heart of the matter- the ways society assigns tax dollars dedicated to education, what he refers to as educational finance monopoly or EFM.

In the United States, contrary to the practice of many other modern democracies, tax dollars are assigned by state bureaucratic structures ...