According to him, one of the basic principles of such systems is letting parents choose which schools their children attend. The whole premise is that if you have a bunch of independent, publicly funded schools that parents have a choice, then the best teachers and administrators would surface to the top and would then take the system to another level. What they do is they improve the individual schools, but it is unclear whether it does anything for the whole system. Ige said he would like to start such changes among the New Century schools and eventually apply them to the entire system. Ito, however, wants to see how LeMahieu's proposals work before making changes proposed by Ige.
Education is in the classroom.
That's where our education happens. We have to support the teachers in the schools, the principals. Senate President Norman Mizuguchi and Senate Education Committee Chairman David Ige support Le-Mahieu's concepts but lean toward more radical reforms, including governance changes. Mizuguchi also hinted at a proposal for a system in which schools would compete for resources, or even students. Competition breeds champions, so public schools have to be more competitive.