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We support choice in public education and believe that quality education is best achieved by encouraging parental involvement, protecting parental rights, and maximizingappropriate local control. District superintendents and their employees should be made solely accountable to their locally elected boards. We support sensible consolidation of local school districts.

Local control also needs checks and balances. For example, it took an act of the Texas Legislature to finally stop idiotic zero tolerance policies. "Maximized" local control would disallow this intervention.

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Educating Our Children > Classroom Discipline
We recommend that local school boards and classroom teachers be given more authority to deal with disciplinary problems. We urge the Legislature, Governor, Commissioner of Education and State Board of Education to remind administrators and school boards that corporal punishment is effective and legal in Texas.
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The first sentence is vague. It is unclear what state-given authority teachers lack, and the Support for Classroom Teachers plank already calls for increased powers to deal with misbehaving students. Any lack of authority is a district-level policy or procedural problem.

Supposely the platform is for "maximizing" local control elsewhere, but yet we want the state to tell the districts what to do?

contradictory, redundant, vague

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