1056: Remaking K–12 after the tragedy of the pandemic. Clint Bolick, @lawyer4liberty
Image: Earth Day Event, with the Creative Child Development Center Clint Bolick, @lawyer4liberty, Associate Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court; Hoover; author, Unshackled: Freeing America’s K through 12 Educational System;Washington Examiner; in re: Our nineteenth-century school system is deeply broken. Warehouses in which children are taught. So many technological advances allow us to deliver excellent education to pretty much every student in America. Zip code puts you in your school, at desks lined in rows; from 8 AM to 3 PM. The notion of one size-fits-all school: we favor reforms—decentralizati0n and deregulation. Schools have autonomy to hire and fire as they see fit. Pay the best teachers more and fire the poor teachers. State-run schools that are similar to charter schools. Also: get rid of the middleman. School districts absorb fifty cents of every dollar, stifle innovation and creativity. Have money reach the schools not via the state but via the students. We could deliver the best teachers to the children. Rich parents have formed educational pods. A benefit of what we propose: the best-performing teachers could double their salary. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/k-12-education-was-broken-long-before-the-pandemic-lets-rethink-it