Bob Schaffer: “Rural America is hurting these days and the rest of the country should take notice.”

It is the fundamental right and obligation of parents to direct the education and upbringing of their children.

It is a perspective that favors choice, local control, a professional transformation of the teaching craft, transparency, accountability, competitiveness, and marketplace entrepreneurship.

You can't have all of this change that has been developed in the states or all of the reluctance to change that has been developed in other states and say that this is somehow one-size-fits-all.

These broad strategies enjoy general bipartisan consensus.