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When I lived in Austin, TX - the city boasted some of the best schools in the state while simultaneously being the district that had the worst.
Education in the U.S. is not bad everywhere - it's not even uniformly bad or good within particular regions.
I've been working in education for 5 years now and to me the problem is too much government. Not liberal or conservative issues, what have you - I have no political axe to grind on that.
No, the problem is literally too many layers of governance. The school district administration has this goal, the state legislature that, the school board this, the state board of education that, the federal government this, the city council that, the mayor this. We're pulled in so many different directions that we can't keep up. When you compare education systems in other countries they don't have that mess. They have a national education policy directed from the capital or they have a laissez-faire approach at local levels. One or the other is better than the multiple overlapping layers.
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