Seizing the records in connection with prosecutions before throwing the UN out is an excellent idea.
The 2% solution won’t work for many reasons, not least of which is that the vast majority of teachers are incompetent by training to do their jobs. Math is a simple example...if they had to teach a real curriculum such as Saxon or Singapore, they wouldn’t be able to do it. They didn’t learn real arithmetic and algebra in school or college, and they don’t have the time or inclination to do the serious work required to get up to speed. I’ve had this conversation with math teachers who quit because “math education” in 95% of government schools doesn’t require real competence in math. In fact, administrators and faculty are hostile to teaching actual math. They flatter themselves by claiming, as the textbook publishing industry has told them, that they are teaching “higher level critical skills”. They wouldn’t deign to teach actual math, which they would deride as “drill and kill”, because, in reality, it’s too difficult for them.
An interesting thought on the 2% solution. I think that everyone can point to the worst performing school in a district (or in a neighborhood for a larger district), so measuring which school would be closed is rather simple and intuitive.
What we lack is the willpower to actually do so. I think what we lack is being challenged to do so.