The Centralization of K-12 Education

Arnold Kling:

"We have been inexorably centralizing control over the schools in this country for 150 years. We've gone from one-room schoolhouses overseen directly by the parents of the children who attended them to sprawling bureaucracies that consume half of the operating budgets of their respective states. We've gone from 127,000 school districts in 1932 to fewer than 15,000 today — despite a massive increase in the number of students."
— Andrew J. Coulson

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 25, 2007 12:00 AM
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