Sep
29
The Fight for Charter Schools
Education reform is sadly one of those things that every politician says they want to take on but have absolutely no political motivation to actual do so. Democrats are too afraid of Teachers Unions and the Republican approach resulted in No Child Left Behind, a true failure.
In fact, the only real success that we have seen across the country in education reform is in charter schools. Charter schools, nationwide, out preform their district schools in standardized tests and college acceptance rates. Despite these successes, most States still have caps or funding limits on charter schools.
The Federalist system in place in the United States has worked well for the past 230 years. However, in the age of globalization, instant communications and supra national organizations, the Federal government must be granted far more power then the state governments.
I consider education in a tie with health care for the most important long term political issue. Certainly, economic, foreign and domestic crisis takes precedence to any issue but in terms of what this country needs to focus on when the world is not on fire, education and health care takes the prize.