RIck says the following about local education:
Reforms at the local level should be focused on expanding consumer choice in public, private, and personalized education, attracting the best teachers to be competitive as a nation, and rewarding excellence, innovation, and personalizing to the needs of individual students rather than governments or unions. Local schools and states should expand online learning options and lift any caps on charter schools as well. There are many inspiring examples of effective teachers, schools, and learning around our nation which parents are seeking out to support them in their role. Rick Santorum believes that we need more.Yes, it isn't a plan. It's principles that he would hope local schools would use to improve.
Gingrich has plans. Plans for how, as President, he would make local schools better.
But why is the President putting together plans to make local schools better? It's not the fed's job. That's a job for the localities.
Newt has said he would send all education management back to the states, with the federal agency remaining, only as a mechanism to gather data on success rates, do research, and offering the states solutions, which they then, freely and of their own volition, choose to implement or disregard. States do not have the resources to develop educational innovations, or state-of-the-art teaching upgrades, or attract experts. Newt simply would make that available, and let the states choose. I think this is a good balance, and a realistic one... but I can see where others might disagree.