As would I.
But the underlying problem is with the system.
A Thomas Sowell, appointed to the highest Education office in the land, would be unable to accomplish zilch.
Because the Dept of Education bureaucracy would fight him every step of the way. And, after them, the public education bureaucracy would fight him every step of the way.
The only help he would likely get would come from the teachers in the class room (some of them, by no means all of them) and the students.
There is only one solution for public education in the USA: blow it up. Start all over again.
On second thought, this might be exactly the solution that a Thomas Sowell sponsors...
We're back to what Reagan said: Government is not a solution to our problem; government is the problem.