As Labour plans to hike private school fees by slapping 20% VAT on them, will overstretched state schools even be able to squeeze in the tens of thousands of pupils predicted to be pushed out of the independent sector?
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Keir Starmer has claimed Labour's policy of slapping 20% VAT on private schooling will raise £1.7bn in tax revenue. But no evidence supports that claim because it fails to allow for pupils leaving for the state sector.
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On school choice, the rest of the world is moving in the right direction, while Labour proposes the opposite. But the UK even funds private schools for poor children in Africa. So why not here?
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies is wrong to assume that Labour's school fees tax grab won't make private education unaffordable for many, an economist argues.
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An economics teacher at a private school has looked at Labour's proposal to raise £1.7 billion from charging VAT on school fees and concluded it won't in fact raise any money.
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Brattleboro Union, a public high school in Vermont, competes with private schools for voucher students from nearby “choice” towns. (Photo: ProPublica)
A self-made Vermonter, Glenn Bowman has sent both his children to out-of-state prep schools. His son plays lacrosse and football at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and his daughter studied advanced dance at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts.
(REPORT) — Teenagers at Paramount Academy sometimes came home with mysterious injuries.
By Peggy NoonanWall Street Journal • February 27, 2016 p. A11Editor’s Note: Miss Noonan is increasingly going off the Wall Street reservation to advocate for the American people and Trump-style populism. In this excerpt from her latest column she shows that stopping migrants, refugees and further immigration are not the human rights issue that the media Right and Left portray it.
