This chapter of the 5th edition of the Policy Guide for Washington State focuses on improving public schools and provides seven policy recommendations:

• Expand family access to charter schools
• Expand access to family choice in education
• Allow Washington parents access to state-funded Education Savings Accounts (up to $9,000 per child)
• Simplify school spending with “fund the child” budgeting
• Shift from funding staff ratios to funding children’s needs
• End the restrictive Prototypical School Model
• Repeal life-time tenure rules and certification limits that keep the best teachers out of public schools

You can read and download this chapter here.