Some school boards drive into Mexico to get children and bring back across the boarder to fill a seat in a school room to qualify for federal funds. Some intentionally flunk qualified students in order that they attend summer school where they repeat the subject and as a result show marked improvement in that particular subject, at the same time justifying funds for the session. Some have their teachers teach the test instead of the subject. If the California Board of Education was a capitalistic institution where it had to compete instead of being subsidized by the taxpayer, it would first have to look at its internal structure and cut out the dead wood. It would have to eliminate duplicitous positions, streamline the structure, and make the bottom line an educated student who is ready to meet the challenge of life.
Competition is good.
It takes you out of your complacency and thrusts you into reality. Nothing is ever perfect and if you wait until all the obstacles are eliminated before you start to implement a program it will never get off the ground. I guess that is the tactic of the present administration. They had their chance and they blew it. The record speaks for itself.