Matt Miller, building on the themes of his recent Atlantic Monthly piece about adiosing school boards, expands a bit more on his argument in this new paper from the Center for American Progress.
Hear him out:
It is only by transcending traditional local control, and by getting serious about a new national role in standards and finance, that we can at last create genuine autonomy for local schools. This autonomy should become the new definition of what we mean when we say “local control.” We need to give schools one clear, national set of expectations, free educators and parents to collaborate locally in whatever ways work to get results, and get everything else out of the way.
Right now we love, love, love local control in this country – so long as control isn’t too local, if you know what I mean…