Every once in a while, the political class find an allegedly urgent problem that needs "fixing". K-12 education has been plagued by the parasite of reform, each time planning to fix the education system for the better. The glaring failure of all of this is that while spending per pupil adjusted for inflation has more than tripled, test scores in the United States have remained stagnant. The problem is not that education needs more money, but rather that every effort up until this point to reform education has increased cost and done nothing to address the needs of studnets.
What we need to do is align school administrators with a profit motive, rather than an effort to maximize federal grants. While a beautiful new gym complex may leave a lasting legacy for a principal, improvements to student performance have nothing to recommend them. By switching to a voucher system, the goals of the parents will be aligned with the goals of administrators and the performance of students will improve. If they don't improve, then the schools will fail, and others will rise in their place.
Treacly- too sweet; over sentimental
Vacillated- wavered; hesitated
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