Observations on local control
This issue is all about who allows whom to have power in the society. Anti-local control people don't have a problem with wealthy communities having local control over their school districts. For instance, no one gripes about the local control of Piedmont City Unified (CA), even though the district is labeled “failing” because it hasn’t made AYP since 2003 (median household income = $168,947).
There's probably some dividing line of wealth in a district, above which local control is a non-issue for the anti-local control crowd, but under which they consider it abhorrent. We can't let the unwashed masses make their own decisions and have their own leaders, can we?
And if the complaint is that there is a dearth of strong local leadership talent at the grassroots level, then why
There's probably some dividing line of wealth in a district, above which local control is a non-issue for the anti-local control crowd, but under which they consider it abhorrent. We can't let the unwashed masses make their own decisions and have their own leaders, can we?
And if the complaint is that there is a dearth of strong local leadership talent at the grassroots level, then why
