For the 1st time provides for a common classification of school personnel and expenditures across the 67 school districts. Class size reduction for kindergarten and first grade. Compression of the funding formula. Bill just passed and sent to governor. Competition, in various forms, is a critical component in attempts to stem the continuous decline in the effectiveness of public education.
State monopolies require comparisons with other public utilities and some level of consumer choice.
Socialist institutions become top heavy, bureaucratic and inflexible in a time of rapid change and increasing international competition. It would be better to have a active educational institution, computer company, communications or publisher, or foundation as sponsor of the non-profit. The management of one-room schools can be taught and learned. They average about fifteen participants. Small ungraded schools work, not from any abstract theory, or magical practice but because of social-biological factors programmed in the human psychology.