While Washington provides less than 10 percent of the money for schools, it creates 80 percent of the paperwork. Our Education Oversight Committee found that the U.S. Department of Education imposes over 48.6 million hours worth of paperwork each year. That's the equivalent of 25,000 employees working full time. That approach just hasn't worked. While a bureaucrat in Washington, DC spends his life building a career, he's interfering with the teachers who are spending their careers building lives.
Teachers find their hands tied, and parents find themselves frustrated.
Worst of all, our children's education suffers. A few statistics make it pretty obvious. It's time for a fresh approach. It's time to put education decisions back in the hands of the one group of people who only have the children's best interest at heart. It's time to put parents back in the driver's seat.