Radical K‑12 Reform: Pay Homeschoolers

What if we just cut through the morass of programs and take all the money being provided at the federal and state level and put it into individual student endowment accounts?The late 1970s in the United States was a time of surprising deregulation.  It was the beginning of the end for the telephone monopolies.  Those inside the regulated industries, and the regulatory agencies, warned of doom and disaster if competition were allowed.  The doomsayers were wrong.  The free market provided solutions that were impossible to forecast.  Competition and the profit motive brought out the best that humans can create.  Communications solutions today are employing far more people than the old phone monopolies, and are delivering services never dreamed of in that era.  The forecasts of disastrous unemployment and system collapse if the phone monopolies were opened to competition were totally and completely wrong. K‑12 is the phone monopoly of our timeThis seems like the best time in years to truly reform K‑12.  However, the f …