United States students will be first in the world in mathematics and science achievement. Every adult American will be literate and will possess the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy and exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Every school in the United States will be free of drugs, violence, and the unauthorized presence of firearms and alcohol and will offer a disciplined environment conducive to learning. Every school will promote partnerships that will increase parental involvement and participation in promoting the social, emotional, and academic growth of children. Click here for the reality of Goals 2000.
Many people support the idea of a school voucher program.
This theory is that if the tax money now going to the entire educational system were instead given to parents of school aged children in the form of education vouchers to be used to purchase education from private companies formed to provide such education, then the free market would cause improvement of educational quality. I am sure that in the case of some enlightened and some upper class parents that would occur for their children. I am equally sure that this system would be a disaster for the overall educational level of this nation. The result would be just what the proponents of this system envision, a nation which would provide the education the parents want. The problem is that many and probably most parents do not want education for their children.