Despite its title, the compromise bill does nothing at all to improve neighborhood schools. The compromise version, however, strips even the minimal public school choice language from the bill. The bill makes sure that schools are not answerable to parents. Little of the new money will even make it to classrooms. The bill specifies that all the money will go to these bureaucrats the first year.
All authority stays with the status quo.
And the state education bureaucracy can spend the new funds on almost anything related to education, regardless of whether it improves student achievement or promotes accountability. Bureaucratizes New American Schools. But the compromise bill ignores America 2000's call for more community involvement in the creation of New American Schools, and it does not allocate any funds to help create the schools. Indeed, the bill does not even reference New American Schools as one of allowable activities that may be funded. Frustrates Regulatory Flexibility.