Allow states to establish their own education standards as is their constitutional domain. Then, if States allowed parents to shop schools you would see schools competing for students. Compitition breeds improvement.
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And that "better" school gets filled up and the rest of the students end up back in their not so good home school, and that school has lost a lot of its funding due to the "better" school taking it, so that home school is even weaker than it was before.
I don't see what was wrong with the Common Core Standards; okay, if you don't want them tied to federal funding, fine. However, we live in a highly mobile society and I feel bad for kids whose parents move from state to state and are at a disadvantage when the two states have completely different curriculums. The other concern I have is that the Common Core Standards are pushing the skills needed for our workforce, which at this time our schools are NOT producing. So the less participation, the worse off we'll be, potentially, down the road. Do I trust all states to WANT to produce students ready for the workforce? Do they have the expertise to do it? I don't know.