And that is just the tip of the ice berg. Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations has 2000 pages of rules applying to local schools which accept federal aid. Meetings must be held and many detailed plans and programs must be drafted in order to comply with intricate guidelines. Government schools are extremely expensive because they waste most of their money on layer after layer of bureaucracy, beginning with 100,000 bureaucrats at the US Department of Education. What these statistics show, is that more than likely, your local school district can refuse all federal and state education aid, and after eliminating all of the mandates attached to this money will come out ahead financially.
More ambitious plans call for complete privatization of schools.
School buildings and equipment can be sold off and the revenue used to create a trust fund with scholarships for poor families, but with school taxes eliminated most parents could afford schooling without any assistance. The PTA is long been a top down organization which has been an advocate of government control and centralization. PTO's on the other hand, are entirely local and not affiliated with each other or any state or national organization. PTO's focus exclusively on improving neighborhood education rather than in advancing a left wing agenda. John Taylor, head of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, who has helped set up PTO's across the country says that PTO's are created both by people who oppose the political agenda of the PTA and those who are non-political and just want to support education without getting involved in politics.