The Economist recently highlighted the efforts of John Mockler, an expert in Californian education who has been trying to make sense of the state's public school morass since the 1960s.
Mockler calls the whole ballot initiative process "mob rule," and his preference for redesigning the entire system is relatively simple and oddly refreshing to anyone who's voted in California. "If you put an initiative on the ballot that repealed every initiative of the past 40 years, I'd vote for it," says Mockler.
The Economist goes on to point out the obvious, but far from helpful: Who's accountable for California's mediocre (at best) schools? Everyone, which is really to say nobody. True enough, but far from a solution.
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