If the governor wants to take over local schools with an appointee, they should stop collecting property taxes.
Approximately 50 percent of local school funding comes from property taxes that are raised and collected by local officials. That is called taxation without representation.
In addition, the school rating system is now dictated by federal law, so the state is just a middle level manager for the federal government.
Since this is the case they should also stop collecting sales tax because the state has abdicated their education authority to the federal government.
If the feds want to call the shots they should be funding 100 percent of the cost, not 5-10 percent. If a corporation wants to call the shots, they should put their money where their mouth is, open up their own school, and fund 100 percent of that cost.
Should the state (federal government, really) intervene in schools designated as failing by the federally controlled quasi-academic and dumbed-down Common Core-aligned school rating system that issues bonus points to favored groups of students?
What do you think? You will be asked this question if you vote in November, only the wording will be slightly different.
Dr. Mary Kay Bacallao
www.EducationalFreedomCoalition.com
Fayetteville, Ga.
[Dr. Bacallao is a former member of the Fayette County Board of Education.]
