These people in Vermont get a Leviathan Ankle-Biter award for trying to keep their local school local.
The group that led the privatization effort praises the school, which performs well on state achievement exams, but sees the move as a way to ward off a state push for consolidation that the group says could lead to a merger of the school.
Excellent article by Diane Ravitch at the WSJ, on “The GOP’s Education Dilemna.”
In addition to reminding us of all the usual bad things about George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” act, she tells us that it’s also causing the closure of community schools. I wish she had given us some examples of how that works, but it’s not surprising. Every time you centralize more authority (= funding) you tend to wipe out some of the smaller players.
Way to destroy local communities, Mr. Compassionate Conservative.