We see these statements frequently ( local control and end of federal interference). While absolutely better than what we have now it is not enough.
**Please**, can I persuade you to see this differently? All government owned and run socialist-entitlement schooling must be abolished. We must begin the process. Why?
1) Local control of a corrupt idea is still corrupt. Government owned and run socialist-funded, single-payer, compulsory-funded, godless (secular), and compulsory-use schools are a corrupt because their philosophic foundations are corrupt.
2) Socialism is corrupt and government schools are, ( and always have been) a socialist-entitlement. The children who attend risk learning that the government ( even very local government) has the power to give them tuition-free schooling. Well!...If the voting mob can give them tuition-free school, why not **lots** of free stuff?
3) Fundamentally, government schooling is a freedom of conscience and First Amendment abomination even if the districts were the size of a city block. Why?
Answer: Because it is absolutely impossible to have a religiously, culturally, and politically neutral education. It likely almost impossible to get all citizens, ( even in a district as small as a suburban subdivision) , to fully agree on any government school's political, cultural, or religious worldview. Inevitably, the most powerful and organized voting mob gets to indoctrinate the next generation of voter in their anointed and government established cultural, political, and religious belief.
Very respectfully...please consider what I have posted.
Wintertime
I apologize for taking so long to answer- too much schoolwork!
I appreciate your points. Locally-controlled public schools are, largely, paid for by local taxpayers. While I cannot rule out state-level oversight, it would seem to be necessary, as I do not believe that all local control would be productive (i.e. Atlanta). Some areas are just, simply, too corrupt. But local school districts, answerable to the voters, is a far better idea than ANY federal control- which is an abject failure.
I heard an interesting idea recently, but cannot remember who said it. His suggestion was to the Christian and religious communities, that they take a greater interest in the schooling of children. After all, they do a lot of missionary work and the establishing of free schools in foreign countries, so why not turn some of that inward, HERE, and actually compete with the public schools by offering free education?....I wish....