Just as academic differentiation for individual students is better than a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching, I believe that local decision-making as to how to run a particular school district is better than one-size-fits-all state or national mandates for all school districts.
That’s what scares me most about the current economic woes many school districts are facing: that in the name of budget reductions, school district decision making may become more and more standardized, made by state and federal officials that are far removed from the students affected by their policies.
Posted by mpullen 
