Helpful as always! Really appreciate you mapping out the policy mechanism details so clearly!
One thing I have been wondering about is whether we should just totally fund schools using federal dollars? I know we are a far way from doing this, but I just want to know if it makes sense as a policy goal, especially from a socialist perspective? Any thoughts on this?
This is a key question. I'm not sure. As much a critique as I am of decentralization and local control, the moment when DeVos called on all schools to open during the pandemic--the effectively little power she had to enforce that--made me cautious in giving up the arrangement we've got. On the other hand, those are lynchpins of the inequality and they have to be addressed head on. I think a regional approach is actually the best, with the federal government playing an incentivizing role through grants and cheap, generous credit.
Socialism in the United States will have to work with the existing structure to some degree and challenge it in other ways. To avoid near constant insurrections like the one we saw a few weeks ago, finding a way to have decentralized market socialism is best and I think consistent with ^^
Helpful as always! Really appreciate you mapping out the policy mechanism details so clearly!
One thing I have been wondering about is whether we should just totally fund schools using federal dollars? I know we are a far way from doing this, but I just want to know if it makes sense as a policy goal, especially from a socialist perspective? Any thoughts on this?
This is a key question. I'm not sure. As much a critique as I am of decentralization and local control, the moment when DeVos called on all schools to open during the pandemic--the effectively little power she had to enforce that--made me cautious in giving up the arrangement we've got. On the other hand, those are lynchpins of the inequality and they have to be addressed head on. I think a regional approach is actually the best, with the federal government playing an incentivizing role through grants and cheap, generous credit.
Socialism in the United States will have to work with the existing structure to some degree and challenge it in other ways. To avoid near constant insurrections like the one we saw a few weeks ago, finding a way to have decentralized market socialism is best and I think consistent with ^^