Mr Puggsly said:
I think John Stossel sums it up well. "The department doesn’t teach kids or pay teachers. It comes up with studies, test requirements, and one-size-fits-all rules that limit what schools can do if they want federal money. That money gets taken from states and shipped to Washington, D.C., which then ships it back to states if they do something the department likes. On that long journey, plenty of the money disappears into the hands of bureaucrats. Turn education back over to local governments, the way it was not so long ago. Let entrepreneurs and local governments compete to improve schools." |
It sound kind of reasonable actually but I know from Sweden, the schools benefitted greatly when the government managed the funds since the could guarantee a proper education for everyone instead of it being dependent on where you live. When we turned that responsibility over to the municipalities, it lowered our overall national performance and mostly benefitted rich municipalities.
