It is already a gloriously profitable business for many people. We ought not to swoon when we hear that private enterprise wants a part of that. We ought to care that the real profit ultimately goes to the children that children profit from the education enterprise and not worry so much about the monetary profit earned by providers. One obstacle to achieving real education reform is that we keep trying to reform the closed system by reforming school districts. Even my own party, the Republicans, are wedded to the school district-based education system, which they call local control.
Local control is a monopoly.
Local control is a governing board that is responsible for everybody. It does not welcome competition. The individuals who sit as governing board members are mostly fabulous people. But we ve given them the wrong job. They ought to be in the business of starting up schools.