Like any president’s budget sent to Congress, Hamilton County Board of Education members and Hamilton County Schools administrators may declare the new public education recommendations by a local panel of business leaders dead on arrival.
They would do so, though, only at the peril of local public education.
The recommendations include consolidating the number of buildings and reducing the number of teachers, both of which may be anathema to school leaders, but the group suggests long-term savings and better student outcomes could result.
A similar group was convened and drew up recommendations for Hamilton County schools in 2009, but their ideas were ignored.
Like any president’s budget, the business leaders’ report contains suggestions that should be implemented but may be considered too much too soon, some that may be pondered but rejected as being politically incorrect, and some that eventually may see the light of day.