John Kozlowski

The founders established the United States with the preeminent concern that centralized control, as was experienced with British rule, always led to tyranny. We were a nation of individual and sovereign states. The federal government’s role in controlling the states was strictly limited.

In violation of those founding principles, federal control of education has led to poorer academic skills in students. Increasing the federal role will only move us more to "lowest common denominator" education. This will produce a generation more susceptible to the federal tyranny the founders feared.

The private education industry is flourishing in the post high school or post college arena. They will train for specific skills, such as computer operation, software development, and business skills. There are several factors involved. Private schools adapt quickly to changing market needs. They address many of the skills the market place demands and generalized education does not provide. They are flexible enough to adopt new techniques and technologies in education.

Private schools and homeschools consistently outperform government schools. These schools can customize their programs to fit the needs of individual students as they are unencumbered by the policies and regulations imposed on government schools. It is unconscionable that we impose these limitations on government school students and the educators that teach them.