The Education Constitution
To ensure that all children have the opportunity to receive a quality, free, public education, we promote the following agenda:
FIRST
Give educators, not unions or other bureaucratic entities, the power over the structure of the school day and the curriculum.
SECOND
Demand that schools adopt practices that lead to high achievement rates. These practices include flexibility in school day and year, the ability to require more teacher preparation time, and the use of student performance data to drive instruction.
THIRD
Immediate action must be taken to improve or to close schools that have been failing. This includes replacing ineffective administrators and teachers, and closing down and replacing failing schools.
FOURTH
Public funding must be directed towards schools that have the capacity to, or a track record of, high performance. Charter schools, public schools, and alternative schools that have demonstrated high performance or the ability to deliver high performance, must be treated preferentially to programs that are failing our children.
FIFTH
Abolish limits on the proliferation of schools that have proven their ability to educate children at high levels.
SIXTH
We demand national achievement standards that are globally competitive.