Neighborhood pools are quiet. Soon, school bells will ring again and the hustle and bustle of a new school year will begin. As their children strap on the backpacks and say goodbye to summer, many parents are once again evaluating the education that their children are receiving. Every parent has a right to expect that their child should get the best education possible. The debate over education is not new to this nation.
Education is often the center of heated political debates.
Foremost in that debate is the federal government's role in educating our children. We all know that schools in Crystal City don't have the same problems as schools in New York City. Each year innovative education reform proposals are bantered about. And each year, the liberal education bureaucrats claim that anyone who wants to reduce the size of the U.S. Department of Education must be against education. Let's be realistic.