I'm really curious to see how you lay out this plan Zach. The more I think about it the more convinced I am that it couldn't work. Education, by its very nature, is subjective and nationalism is by its nature standard.
For example, our Rochester school district (hardly the paragon of a successful school district), while rife with problems benefited from the specification of different schools. We did well at School of the Arts, while others did well at more technical schools like Edison and Wilson. Even School without Walls has real benefits.
Now obviously they all had their failings and I'm sure a great part of that can be attributed to lack of funding. But, in your proposal, is there a national standard whereby each school could pick a function? I'm not sure this works across the board. I think what is more likely to blame is that we don't pay enough taxes. The system is terribly underfunded, along with the current funds being badly miss-managed (as you point out). Is the best option to tear down the system and start over, or actually try to make the one we have work first?
I want to bring up one other thing that I would love to hear each of your takes on. Check out this article from the Toronto Star and tell me what you think. Does this represent full-circle progressivism or hard-core reversion?
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