When I was taught, it was at a locally elected. The teachers knew every kid and their parents. The parents knew the teacher and his background it had flaws but it worked.
We were taught to think.
At a local level
School Consolidation ended that. The excuse was the consolidated schools could offer better equipment, but the internet and telecommunication has made a joke out of that premise. Just putting schools back in neighborhoods would eliminate busing and that alone would cut our "Carbon Footprint {:~)" immeasurably.
What technology can't do is provide 6,000 kids to pick a football team from.