This need not be a time for choosing between expanding parental options and improving traditional public schools. The Right can and should do both.
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Students exit a bus at Venice High School in Los Angeles, Calif., December 2015.
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Fixing America’s public schools might be one of the toughest challenges out there. We’ve inherited a “system” that is 150 years old and is saddled with layers upon layers of previous reforms, regulations, overlapping and calcified bureaucracies, and a massive power imbalance between employees and constituents, thanks to the almighty teachers unions.
It’s a morass, a Gordian Knot, a Sisyphean task that has stymied would-be reformers for decades.
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Michael J. Petrilli is the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Fixing America’s public schools might be one of the toughest challenges out there. We’ve inherited a “system” that is 150 years old and is saddled with layers upon layers of previous reforms, regulations, overlapping and calcified bureaucracies, and a massive power imbalance between employees and constituents, thanks to the almighty teachers unions.
It’s a morass, a Gordian Knot, a Sisyphean task that has stymied would-be reformers for decades.
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About the Author
Michael J. Petrilli is the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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