Richard, you basically have the right idea, but create too much opportunity for intentional, and unintentional political mischief; for example through testing and judging students' success as a basis for funding.
In my book, School System Reform, I describe why we're in the existential threat mess we're in, why central plan optimization c…
Richard, you basically have the right idea, but create too much opportunity for intentional, and unintentional political mischief; for example through testing and judging students' success as a basis for funding.
In my book, School System Reform, I describe why we're in the existential threat mess we're in, why central plan optimization cannot and will not yield a tolerably functional K-12 system - that includes charter schools - and how to move forward to an effective system. That is, I take political feasibility into account.
The two key features of the way forward are: 1) an end to the public funding discrimination against the children for whom the assigned school is a poor fit; and 2) price decontrol of alternatives to the assigned school. A level playing field, with price formation and adjustment to inform and motivate education entrepreneurship, will yield the relentlessly improving, diverse menu of schooling options that a diverse student population needs to realize its full potential as citizens and productive workers.
Richard, you basically have the right idea, but create too much opportunity for intentional, and unintentional political mischief; for example through testing and judging students' success as a basis for funding.
In my book, School System Reform, I describe why we're in the existential threat mess we're in, why central plan optimization cannot and will not yield a tolerably functional K-12 system - that includes charter schools - and how to move forward to an effective system. That is, I take political feasibility into account.
The two key features of the way forward are: 1) an end to the public funding discrimination against the children for whom the assigned school is a poor fit; and 2) price decontrol of alternatives to the assigned school. A level playing field, with price formation and adjustment to inform and motivate education entrepreneurship, will yield the relentlessly improving, diverse menu of schooling options that a diverse student population needs to realize its full potential as citizens and productive workers.