Vouchers, Choice and Charters spell the end of LOCAL ELECTED control. State control is NOT a good option.
If this gives parents the ability to choose a local private or religious school, why is that not a move in a positive direction?
There are plenty of parents in my town that would love the ability to get their tax money back and choose another K-12 option.
“LOCAL ELECTED”? You mean “teacher controlled” school boards. The donations and candidates come from the local teacher thugs, excuse me, unions. State control is not the option, parental control is. The eventual goal, parents keep their tax money and decide where and when to send their children for education.
[ Vouchers, Choice and Charters spell the end of LOCAL ELECTED control. State control is NOT a good option. ]
The sheer existence of the Federal Department of Education and teacher’s unions invalidates your point.
At least with vouchers parents can “vote with their feet”, which is better than union control and federal control.
Ideally we would like to make it “like it was”, but as long as the Federal Dept of Education exists, vouchers and charters are the only escape hatch parents have.
In Washington, DC 42% of students are now in Public Charter Schools. Now that the better students with more motivated parents are out of their local schools, they have decided that since there is no increase in test scores in the remaining public schools, a bunch of them should also be closed or turned into Charter Schools. At some point, someone is actually going to have to deal with the problem that there are students at the low end of the totem pole that need more or different than they are getting now. Also that not all parents are motivated to raise their kids properly, or are working too many hours to supervise them properly.
I prefer State control over Fedgov control via the Department of Education. That is one bureaucracy that could be completely eliminated without anyone missing it, except for its union members. Can anyone explain succinctly explain what the DoE does other than lobby for more money for the National Education Association (NEA) and pass restrictive regulations?
Federal, State, County, and City employees should never have been allowed to unionize. It is contrary to their basic mission of service and only serves themselves with their outrageous pensions and tenure. Those obscene pensions are killing many States nowadays.
The reason I am such a big States' Rights advocate is because you can always move to another state if you don't agree with its policies/government. You can't get away from Fedgov control without moving out of the country.