McCain: Shake up failed school bureaucracies

Senator John McCain called for a shakeup of "failed school bureaucracies" and greater parental choice in education as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night, September 4, 2008.

"Equal access to public education has been gained. But what is the value of access to a failing school?" McCain said at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul., Minnesota. "We need to shake up failed school bureaucracies with competition, empower parents with choice, remove barriers to qualified instructors, attract and reward good teachers, and help bad teachers find another line of work." The crowd gave those lines one of the loudest roars of approval of the nominee's lengthy acceptance speech. Read more in Education Week online.