My Fellow Chief's Planet Americans,
We last left off with our proposal to move American education from a paper based to a computer based system, offering better economy, flexibility, and adaptation in a fast changing world.
But how do we pay for such a venture. Bad Girl has offered the idea of a nationwide "Bake Sale" to raise revenues for her education program.
Will It Really Work?
Direckshun still supports the classic tax and spend ideas saying that if we get inventive, "such as taxing tailgate parties", we could acquire the needed capital.
The Victims
Joey is convinced we are headed into a new era where education "probably won't even be needed," and that we should be on the forefront of the "glass half empty" theory.
Joey's Education Think Tank
Here's what we propose at the CRONUS/Simply Red team. The transition to computer based systems, can find it's funding and excellence by enlisting the engines of our economy: small business ingenuity and corporate production. Corporations want tax incentives to lower their overall costs. Let's make the most lucrative of such cuts go to corporations that produce and distribute the new hardware and software for education. This doesn't have to be limited to corporations who develop computer based technology, however. Each corporation would interview and fund individual entrepreneurs and small business as sponsors for the education hardware and software it wants to attach its name to. The state education boards, then have the opportunity to select the hardware and software they feel best benefits their state's needs. Such selection times could be done annually or bi-annually, ensuring constant upgrades and innovation through competition. Effectiveness, as well as demand, will help determine the scope of the tax benefit to the corporation, ensuring the quality is the best that can be attained. The education system is the ultimate beneficiary, but not the only one, as the products of this system, the graduates, will then be better prepared to lend their new skills to the workforce at large.
Corporations may be legal persons, but they don't have the needs and desires of human beings. Those have to be artificially created, so it appears as a benefit to an artificial person's primary motive, profit. Ingenuity is the product of the human individual, whose only obstacle is sometimes funding. Instead of the Government funding contractors, let the corporations take that place, who in turn offer the product for the American people's approval. We can make this work my fellow Chief's Planet Americans! We can update American education AND make it an agent of economic prosperity and ingenuity!
There is one other aspect to our Education Platform, one that needs to be addressed so that the primary concern is not "No Child Left Behind", but instead, "One Size Does Not Fit All!" We will explore this in our next segment. Vote leadership, vote insight, vote CRONUS/Simply Red!