You go, girl! Storm the Department of Education with torches and pitchforks if that's what it takes. Seems to me that your plan to secede is far more realistic than taking on the state machinery and trying to change the whole system.
If it fails, what'll you do?
That's what we think. We've tried working with the district, and that has not gotten us anywhere.
The state is just too big to change, and Arnold is doing some things there.
The seceding is really what the people can do, and we are getting a lot of people (and the press) to back us up.
If it fails, then I'll send my kids to our neighborhood school and do lots of praying. My daughter has brain damage, and we thought she would need a special ed class. So far, she hasn't. Hopefully, she'll do okay in the neighborhood school.
If she starts doing poorly, then I'll try homeschooling.