“First God created idiots,” wrote Mark Twain. “That was for practice. Then he created school boards.” Is it time to undo God’s work, and abolish district school boards? Yes, says John Evans, an at-large member of the Colorado Board of Education. The state should just give education funding directly to the local schools, instead of passing the money through a school district bureaucracy.
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