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I'm not disagreeing with you, but what should scare you more.

Is federal control worse, or is the power of the National Education Association and its agenda worse?

I compared NEA to Al Capone and the KKK earlier and the feds went after them when local power didn't work.

I think that's the problem here, the liberal (NEA) agenda in education.

I believe in local control, but even the local elected school boards around here (PA) are filled with NEA and or liberal people. They (the school boards) aren't going to fix things and every time we elect a conservative school board in one district, they (Education Association) pour money in to take them out in the next election.

Its like some corrupt political machine the way liberals seize and maintain control of our local school boards in PA.

Send in the feds and get the gangsters out of education.

Originally from Pa; but have lived in alaska over a dozen years. Believe me, your schools are light years better than anything in alaska.

Property taxes improve schools, in many areas of alaska prop taxes are non-existent and schools don't even have books. You only get what you pay for.

Local control without state oversight and accountability leads to massive corruption within school districts. It's great to live in a repub state but the down side is these same repubs refuse to expose the problems of local control; just keep the money flowing. Schools exist not to educate children but rather to provide endless money source for school boards, admin people, and their relatives to line their pockets.

Personally, I want politics out of education, the feds out of education, the local crooks out of education. A state dept of ed that is rigidly controlled by an unbiased board of (business types) no teachers, politicians, preachers, off the wall parents, ect to set goals and directions for the future.