Analyst's note: There is a solution suggested by the title of this article. Please click on the title above for additional insight as to how to solve this problem. The reasoned solution begins with sending the "[...] dollars and decision-making authority out of Washington and back to states, localities, and ultimately, parents."
"In the mid 1960s, education policy took a wrong turn, away from America’s founding principles. That was when President Lyndon B. Johnson, as a part of his War on Poverty, created the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). It was the first major federal foray into local schools.
But the Constitution doesn’t provide for a federal role in education, and public schools had traditionally been under the jurisdiction of local authorities.
What’s more, Washington’s intervention seemed to bring out the worst in education governance: State officials became the middlemen to administer federal funding and bureaucratic bloat followed. Staff at state education agencies doubled in the five years after ESEA became law. [....]
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