With teachers wanting to collect a paycheck while staying home permanently, Trump should announce an initiative to have federal education money follow the student. If school systems are going to be operated virtually, why can’t a student in a poor system “attend” a virtual classroom in a better system in another city, or another state? If the money followed, the highly performing system could pay teachers more or increase instruction staff.
Your comment begs the question, what makes a school high performing or failing?
If all the students from a failing school attended a high performing school via online classes would those students become high performing students?
In all the discussions regarding failing/low performing schools I’ve yet to see any explanation as to why they are low performing schools. And what makes a school high performing? Is it the amount of money spent per student? The state of the building? The students themselves in both high and low performing schools seem to be exempt from all responsibility regarding their performance on standardized tests.
It seems to me that the culture of the community in which the school is located plays a significant role in determining whether or not the students test well. Unless the students embrace the idea that education is important then it matters not what kind of instruction they receive.