[Jim from C-Town]

Want to fix public schools? Stop Federal aid and Federal coercion. Let the Local and State authorities handle the entire process. Just lie the Constitution intended.

[cuban leaf]

Want to fix public schools? Stop Federal aid and Federal coercion.

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Yup. The fedgov should not even be involved. It’s not their swim lane.

[Academiadotorg]

this is why even allegedly conservative attempts at top-down reform fail. A whole generation of lawmakers needs to be schooled in the principle of subsidiarity.

[The_Reader_David]

In this case, getting the Feds out won't fix the problem. The source of the problem is two-fold, one cause is nearly universal in our times -- the professional managerial class, in this case high-paid principals and superintendents, having become a parasite on the institutions for which they are supposed to have fiduciary responsibility (what I had dubbed "the Era of Bad Stewards") -- the other is particular to K-12 education -- the fact that almost every one of the several states, with no coercion from the Federal government, have given a monopoly on producing "qualified" or "certified" teachers to colleges of education whose curriculum is, by and large, a vacuous amalgam of politically correct rubbish ("whole language" reading instruction, Vygotsky's "social construction of knowledge", "discovery learning" as a substitute for actually teaching math facts and standard algorithms,. . .), and which, by offering the easiest to complete majors at their universities, attract precisely the people we ought not want educating our children -- from my observations, about 85% of "ed majors" are math-phobic ditzes. I pity the other 15% who actually have something on the ball and are likely to make good teachers, and I'm not sure how many of them actually finish, without being ruined by the rot that passed for "teacher training" and actually become the good teachers they started with the potential to become.