We know there is substantial evidence that private initiatives are much more effective than government-directed ones. In education, there is no better example than Hillsdale College. Hillsdale has even designed a curriculum for use in elementary and secondary school. Their blueprint is so simple that curricula, textbook selection, and overall administration is contained in a loose leaf binder. It was just a few years ago that a few parents, not satisfied with the educational options for their children, used this curriculum in starting a rapidly growing enterprise school in Oklahoma City.
Leadership takes guts.
The status quo remains intact because few want to disturb what they have always known. This is particularly true in education. There are countless bureaucrats, unions, and other special interest groups in control of education which inevitably try to overwhelm and subvert any efforts at true educational reform. This is a step in the right direction, but our ultimate benchmark of success is when every first-grade child can read in every school in Oklahoma. It's your money.