The Democrats put their faith in the educational system at the local level. We believe in elected local boards working in concert with parents and teachers to do what's best for their classrooms. Ken Vedra also insisted in an interview that Republican mistrust of school boards has little basis in fact. That committee is made of parents and citizen taxpayers who work in tandem with the board to identify district needs and decide how and where funds should be spent, and they take their responsibility very seriously. It's all part of the District Accountability Law in the School Finance Act.
School boards operate with a ton of built-in accountability to parents and taxpayers.
The people of our district hold us minutely accountable. The state government needs to get out of this issue. I feel very strongly about this. Teaching is no longer an attractive profession to college students. They can't support themselves on the typical entry-level salary, especially if they have families.