The Feds should be out of education outside of providing funds to the States. The only stipulation for those funds should be a voucher program. No voucher program, no federal funds.
End federal involvement in funding education but pass a federal civil right under the auspices of the 14th’s “poi” clause (that the several States my not disparage) in support of school choice and homeschooling as options available to parents.
Funding private schools?
How much of this would go to jihadi educational institutions?
GWBush introduced something in education akin to “no child left behind” reforms, for increasing academic standards and achievement in K-12 schools, at the state level when he was governor of Texas.
Yet, he was really no Conservative on this when he became president.
If “no child left behind” was a good thing, the Conservative “advancement” of the idea was not that the federal government should do it - with all the regulatory ties to obtaining the money for it. What was needed, simply, was/is for states to do something similar. Nothing was stopping them, not even the federal government.
GWBush did, in education and other areas, what many Conservatives do when they reach federal office. They grasp the power of the deep state, regulatory state the progressives created and use its power of imposing “solutions” for what they think are good ends. They fail to understand that good government is not a focus of hoped for ends alone, but judges the means alone as representing good government. Turning the federal government into a federalism destroying centralized national state is not a “good”.
Things that are the in the natural scheme of state and local control - like education, public safety & criminal justice, and others - need to be left as state and local governance issues, not sources of expanding federal power.
I would rather that the money the district gets from me be available to me for my kids education.
As it is now, I am paying twice. Once in taxes to the local school district, and once in tuition at my kid’s private school.
The public school wants to charge me a surcharge because they are not there. Seems they lose some federal funding because they are not in the public school system, and view that as “stealing from public schools”.
16 years ago we had the same discussion for Bush’s “faith based initiative”, and the answer is still the same: federal dollars come with federal strings, if not this administration then the next. That’s how it always works, that’s actually how we WANT it to work (think about all the things you’d rather your tax dollars not teach the kids, there you go).
If it isn’t a Trojan Horse now, you can bet that Democrats will try to use vouchers as a Trojan Horse later.
It will still be better than the current system.
Best system of all, though would be take funding to the lowest level of government possible.