Restoring a school system that has been hijacked by the left should be the nation’s highest priority.

Let us start by clarifying that the problem is in the Public Education Systems for the private and parochial systems perform at high levels with well run cost operations. The Public Education Systems serve only its members not the students nor the parents except when they act as babysitting centers. The operational cost levels of the Public Systems is 300% to 500% more than Parochial and Private Systems. The staffing levels and their compensation levels mimic the general 50% over staffing and compensation of the Public Sector operations. The Education Outcomes are poor at best, failing when compared to other leading industrial countries of the World and that is using the much watered down measurement/achievement standards of today’s Public Systems. The collusion between the Politicians and the various Education Unions has produced numerous mandates to provide cover for the mismanagement and these dysfunctional operations. The elected Boards that are to represent the taxpayers are all insiders of the system and as with the entire Two-Party Electoral processes in the US, the system is rigged to prevent outside competition or reform. The entire budgeting process is baseline only and predicated on continuous expansion with no evaluation of efficiency or restructuring. There are no common sense business principles in these huge bureaucratic systems. They operate a 17th Century Education process in the 21st Century. Reform should start with Voucher System that provides $7K per child annual Voucher allowing the parents to choose their school from the Public, Parochial and Private Systems. This would immediately force the long overdue restructuring of these out of control, bloated and dysfunctional Public Systems. Their millionaire pension fraud should also be addressed as part of the reform of the entire Public Sector, and all Public Sector Labor Agreements should be ratified at the ballot box to end the massive fraud here or at least give the taxpayers a clear view of accepting the rape and robbery being perpetrated on them. If we were truly serious about Education reform we would already have or establish a “Virtual Education System” for all grades Junior High and above and also let it supplement the learning process for the lower grades. Every child would be taught by the “Subject Matter Expert” and would develop their subject skills through thousands of no repeating exercises and experiments allowing continuous measurement of progress and proficiency. The advancement would no longer be based on age or calendar year but competency in the material. And this technology based system would actually cost much less than $7K per child annually matching many of the cost structures seen in today’s parochial and private systems.