Our U.S. Constitution does not give any authority to our federal government in the education of our children.  This means that the federal government should not be involved in any way with the education of anyone. Period! This means no federally mandated public education related laws, enforcement or funding.  No Pell Grants, student loans, teacher certification requirements, school accreditation, Title mandates, Head Start funding, bilingual-education, reduced and free lunches, busing to achieve racial or other desegregation, etc.   We should eliminate the unconstitutional Federal Department of Education ("FDE"), and give the money taken from parents to pay for the FDE back to the parents to use on the education of their children as the parents see fit.   

Yes, I know, the FDE is a major funding source for new charter schools. Nevertheless, the cost to taxpayers, and the loss of their freedoms, is not worth the benefits.  Charter schools, and other schools of choice, will grow naturally when the money follows the child. Schooling used to be free of big federal government interference.  The more the Feds got involved in K-12 education (especially with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002), the more they dictated what must be taught, what discipline is allowed, how to measure success, how schools are rated, and how funding must be spent to name just a few of their controlling mechanisms.  The parent, and at the very least, the local government should be in total control of how best to spend tax dollars on the education of the children in a local community.