Send Libertarians to Austin

Enact meaningful educational reform

    Our educational system has serious problems.  Children are not pressed to succeed.  Innovation and imagination are stifled, both in the students and in the teachers.  Curricula are driven by national goals and standardized test outcomes.  The system is used by people who don't pay for it, and paid for by people who don't use it.

    We need a significant shift in educational policy.  We must abandon the "one-size-fits-all" mentality that has been driving the government educational bureaucracy for decades.

   We have a system that is unaccountable to those of us who pay the bills, and unresponsive to the parents of students.  We have systems built around sports teams, instead of academic programs.  Social conditioning and extra-curricular activities have taken priority over math and reading.

   There is a way out.  We must end the ability for school districts to raise money without regard to results.  Our current system of school funding is broken.  The answer Austin has come up with is a State-wide property tax or a State income tax.  Both "solutions" will make the problems worse.

   The answer is to end the power of school districts to tax for revenue.  We must convert the governmental subdivisions to locally governed cooperatives.

   The answer is to shift the current educational budget to an unrestricted voucher system.

   The answer is to let parents choose the school and the curriculum.

   Only by ending the guaranteed income that the public educational system receives will any meaningful reform come about.

   I understand that Government loves to buy our loyalty with our money.  That's basically what Austin has done with the current system.  To ensure that a voucher system is unrestricted, we must sunset the Texas Education Agency.  Parents must be allowed total control over the education of their children.

   As with any governmental program, the question is who knows best...you, or some faceless government employee in Austin?

   I believe it's you.  I think you do, too!