Want real education reform? Then Sacramento policy makers need a way around local union contracts that prevent the dismissal of ineffective teachers, the leading barrier to improved student performance. School choice is the only real answer.
The principal of Needham High School in the Boston suburbs decided his students were too stressed out. He worried that the high pressure in his affluent suburban school created an unhealthy "ethos of super-achievement" that he wanted to roll back. So he got rid of a published honor roll and introduced required yoga classes for seniors. He's also asked teachers to schedule homework-free weekends and holidays. Read more
School choice opponents demand parental responsibility but deny the parental rights necessary to fulfill it. Real parental involvement requires freedom to choose their children’s schools. Until parents can exercise that freedom, stop blaming them for the failures of schools others chose for them.
