Faux fur is fine, but faux education plans like LEAPS (Local Empowerment and Accountability for Public Schools) are designed to muddy the waters and reinforce the power held by the monopolistic education system while pretending to be real reform. Oh how they love their acronyms! SB 304 doesn’t cut it for imagery. LEAPS on the other hand sounds like a verb of action, moving forward.

In reality, LEAPS (SB 304) is anything but a movement forward. It is an attempt to shackle Gov. Gibbons’ Empowerment plan with a heavy ball and chain, and later deride why it doesn’t soar. It is public education’s long-term, unspoken power program called SATIE (Shackle Anything That Is Effective).

The dueling Empowerment plans will be presented to the Senate Human Resources and Education Committee this Monday at 1:30 in room 2135. I’ve written a more extensive article about LEAPS and its twisted nature in a column that will be published soon.

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