What If States Competed Like Schools?
I read the following commentary by Bill Phillis of Ohio Coalition for Adequacy and Equity, and it gave me an idea:
The HB 70-triggered chaos continues in Lorain City School District
While state officials fiddle with the potential of repeal of HB 70, Lorain City School District continues to burn.
The HB 70 CEO claimed and then retracted that school employees would not be paid; the Board of Education filed a lawsuit; Representative Joe Miller asked for public records regarding contracts and expenditures; HB 70 CEO makes a request for mediation to the Ohio Supreme Court’s Government Conflict Resolution Services; etc. The chaos is ever present.
State takeover of school districts do not resolve the problem of low grades on the state report card. Poverty is the problem. The delivery of public education programming and services is a function of local communities via elected boards of education. State takeover of school districts would be akin to a federally-appointed commission replacing the functions of state government. That would not sit well with elected state CONTINUE READING: What If States Competed Like Schools? | Diane Ravitch's blog
