It is a perspective that favors choice, local control, a professional transformation of the teaching craft, transparency, accountability, competitiveness, and marketplace entrepreneurship.
Schaffer advocates for educational reforms emphasizing local control and accountability.
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This is the greatest environment for school reform I have seen in my career in here, in 38 years on this committee, and we should be taking advantage of it.
the expectation level of accountability and the immediacy of a response is far quicker, and greater, and more precise, and more meaningful when we move authority actually away from Washington and back to the neighborhood.
This chart to my right explains how Federal education funds get from a taxpayer to a student here at the bottom. It is funneled through all of these different agencies: The U.S. Treasury Department, the Congress, the U.S. Department of…
The reason teachers and administrators in public schools and private schools are excited about tax credits is because they play more of a leadership role in getting these dollars to the children who need it the most.