Literally trillions of dollars have been spent nationally over the last two decades on education. Both Bush (No Child Left Behind) and Obama (Race to the Top, and others) have pushed for more nationalization of education. In return, America has seen a steady decline in education quality relative to other nations, and this will put us at a distinct competitive disadvantage in the global economy. Let’s privatize education. Let’s eliminate tenure and start richly rewarding teachers that produce and get rid of teachers that don’t. Let’s open the whole market to competition, which will force accountability and efficiency on the entire education establishment. Those that protest give a thousand reasons why none of these things will make education better…but it’s hard to see how it could make it worse. For once let’s have the actions of our politicians match the rhetoric and truly do what is best “for the children.”
You can privatize education and still have a need for a local school board. You can privatize education and not change anything… except the quality of that education for all students.
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