Newt has said he would send all education management back to the states, with the federal agency remaining, only as a mechanism to gather data on success rates, do research, and offering the states solutions, which they then, freely and of their own volition, choose to implement or disregard. States do not have the resources to develop educational innovations, or state-of-the-art teaching upgrades, or attract experts. Newt simply would make that available, and let the states choose. I think this is a good balance, and a realistic one... but I can see where others might disagree.
I’m still trying to wrap my head around the “problem” you mentioned that we can’t let parents be in charge because so many of them would screw up.
Newt says lots of things. He will send education back to the states, but also has a full-page of detailed plans for how states will be required to give parents tax dollars to spend at local schools. Or was that just a suggestion that the schools could freely reject?
I’m trying not to comment on Gingrich. I’m trying to stick to saying nice things about Santorum in Santorum threads. So I don’t want to tear down his “plan”, even though someone else brought it up in this thread.
It is certainly in the right direction. However....Nothing in the Constitution allows for the federal government to conduct education research, or develop “state of the art” upgrades.