Improve Education

By Peter D. "Pedro" De Baets

Scholarship funds, reduce testing requirements, reduce bureaucracy.

To help resolve this we should Initiate Scholarship funds supported by Tuition Tax Credits (a program already successful in Arizona) to allow parents to put their children in better performing schools with the help of financial assistance from a school tuition organization. We should reduce public education bureaucracy to allow more funding to flow to classrooms. We should reduce/eliminate as many mandated testing requirements as possible so teachers will have more freedom to teach THEIR way. We should remove any bureaucratic obstacles to private and homeschooling.

For this solution, no additional taxpayer funding would be required. Minor bureaucratic costs of licensing school tuition organizations would be covered by savings in reduced student enrollment.