The big takeaway from the fight over race-baiting Critical Ethnic Studies curriculum in county schools: time to break up big school districts

Local parents may successfully push back against their school districts' extremist, Critical Race Theory-inspired teachings. But Tony Woodlief, author of I Citizen, argues that those victories could prove pyrrhic, as big, left-wing bureaucracies will swallow up the reform in spreadsheets and evasive maneuvering. The real solution: cut down the size of the school districts to a manageable, accountable size. First published in the Wall Street Journal.

Breaking up school districts would make school boards more accessible and responsible to the communities they serve, allowing for customization of instructional practices and curricula. The board members of massive districts like Los Angeles (483,234 students) and Miami-Dade (347,484) are union-backed, professional education bureaucrats. Bust their monopolies into a few hundred small districts, and the ideologues surreptitiously pushing "equity" modules could face serious election challenges from anyone with a compelling point of view and the willingness to campaign door to door.

Local communities can regain authority over what their children are taught. Schools in progressive cities can teach critical race theory if that is what they want, while the rest of the country can keep such dogmas out. It's a solution that ought to appeal to anyone who believes in democratic self governance

Read the whole thing here.

More on Alliance for Constructive Ethnic Studies, a powerful local group pushing back on extremist county race-based curricula here.

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