When it comes to educational governance — especially at the school district level — two strains remain supreme. The first is the growing realization that dominant structures (notably, school boards), are obsolete and ineffective in delivering high-quality education; their continued existence is more a credit to the lack of better ideas and the self-preservation of those who derive their power from them. The second: That other structures (including mayoral control) may be more-effective models of governance than school boards, but not good enough. Ultimately, we are nowhere near a way of providing education that actually allows for parents to be the lead decision-makers in education they should be and ultimately, leads to the full reform of American
Four Things Benjamin Jealous Should Say
When NAACP President Benjamin Jealous makes his appearance next week at the American Enterprise Institute, it will likely be the first time the head of what was once America’s leading civil rights organization has had a public conversation with the nation’s school reform movement. It is a pity. As much