While I am not a proponent of Thomas Jefferson’s proposed plan for public education, I do support implementing some of his simple educational philosophies, for instance allowing experts and parents to have complete educational sovereignty in their local communities. Today overextending and far-reaching educational regulations, such as No Child Left Behind, centered in the hands of the federal and state governments have only increased governmental regulations. This kind of unnecessary, bureaucratic red tape has tied the hands of teachers, administrators, and parents to surrender school funding and options (including technology, textbooks, resources, etc.) to the power and pocketbook of special interest groups, i.e.
