Rick Hill: “let us take a clue from successful governors across the country who have taken on the special interests in making…”

“let us take a clue from successful governors across the country who have taken on the special interests in making education their top priority. The same scene has been played out in State after State. A governor proposes real education reforms, from charter schools, to school choice, to tough academic standards, to back-to-basics, to ed flex. Then the special interests rise up in indignation, they denounce those reforms and a battle forms, a public relations battle between the reform-minded governor and the special interests that have produced the terrible results in the first place. One reform that the special interests particularly do not like is ed flex. They do not like it because it gives States and local schools the power to decide how to best spend the Federal education dollars. The special interests hate this idea because it means that Washington will no longer be telling local schools what they need, and they do not like it because it means parents and local authorities will have more control over education and the special interests will have less. Let us give governors the power they need to improve our public schools. Let us support ed flex.”