The real status quo
For the past three years, real per-pupil spending in schools has declined in Florida and (I would guess) most states. During and since the Lesser Depression, declining funding and annual layoff notices comprise the status quo. For the past ten years, there has been a federal mandate for annual high-stakes testing in seven out of 12 grades. High-stakes testing is the status quo. For the past twenty years, there has been the creation and dramatic growth of quasi-non-governmental (or quango) schools we call charter schools. Charters are concentrated in large cities, some of which have been the focus of efforts to replace locally-governed public schools with charter schools (Chicago, New York, New Orleans, and Washington, DC). In a large number of cities, the growth of charter schools is the status quo.
Sherman Dorn via http://shermandorn.com/wordpress/?p=3618
