New state model for education

Lets say you theoretically were in a position of power to revamp your state's education model to both improve results and also make your state more attractive as a place to move. What would you do?

My answer(feel free to drop your own as well):

-Eliminate mandatory standardized state graduation requirements. Students may have the option of taking standardized exams if they choose if they are necessary for colleges they want to attend. Maybe you can choose to take exams with different levels of difficulty to show your competency.

-Eliminate the mandatory 8-3 day. Schools can choose whatever curriculum they desire to. Some may choose to be technical schools, some may choose to be a standard 8-3 school, some may be a mix of different models.

-Parents choose the school they want their kids to attend. Take away all public funding for schools and give it to the people. Everyone, rich or poor, gets a voucher that would be the equivalent of what they state(local, state, federal etc) would have spent on them for the 8-3 model. Schools can charge what they want to. It may be more or less than the voucher. Schools can also offer scholarships or needs based assistance.

-You are free to donate your voucher if your kid doesnt need it OR sell whatever wasnt used after the kid turns 18(kid will legally own the remaining vouchers. These possibly could be forfeited for discipline problems.

-Schools have complete autonomy over discipline. State funding is only tied to school by use of vouchers. If discipline is too lax or too strict, parents can take their money elsewhere. Kids can be expelled at the complete discretion of the school.

-No state "Teacher's Certificate" is required. If you are a competent electrician and want to teach that a couple of days a week, a school could hire you to do that. Same for any other subject.

-Kids could possibly attend different schools on different days of the week depending on what those schools offer.

-Athletics: will be governed by a state body(or possibly private organization) separately from academics. Kid might have to possibly pick a primary school which he competes for. Coaches dont have to be teachers. Schools will have to pay them what they can.

-Schools can have whatever graduation protocol they want to. You might "graduate" from a technical program at 16 but continue on with another academic curriculum till you are 18. Some schools might have graduation after 10th or 11th year. It just depends on the school.

Obviously you cant just roll this out day one of next school year. Have a 5-10 year rollout program where existing school buildings are sold to investors(who agree to a binding contract to use the building as a schools). You may not see changes to schools for several years.

Also you could allow for community investment in schools. If you buy stock in a school, much like a company you get voting power on electing board members for that particular school...who would hire the principals and staff.