America's education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs
governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to
be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different
problems that can arise at any given school - something that large
educational bureaucracies are notoriously bad at. Paul T. Hill and
Ashley E. Jochim offer here a solution that is brilliant for its
simplicity and distinctly American sensibility: our public
education system needs a constitution. Adapting the tried-and-true
framework of our forefathers to the specific governance of
education, they show that the answer has been part of our political
DNA all along. Most reformers focus on who should control
education, but Hill and Jochim show that who governs is less
important than determining what powers they have. They propose a
Civic Education Council-a democratic body subject to checks and
balances that would define the boundaries of its purview as well as
each school's particular freedoms. They show how such a system
would prevent regulations meant to satisfy special interests and
shift the focus to the real task at hand: improving school
performance. Laying out the implications of such a system for
parents, students, teachers, unions, state and federal governments,
and courts, they offer a vision of educational governance that
stays true to - and draws on the strengths of - one of the greatest
democratic tools we have ever created.
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