Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do.

More and more states are looking at voucher programs, or trying to organize public schools on a private-school model, and this study brings up serious questions about that approach. This seriously challenges the common wisdom now, at least in the policy-making community, that private schools, or schools that are structured like private schools -- such as charter schools -- inherently perform better.

We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.

If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.

I think the key is the relationship between the superintendent and the school board.

Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.