.2 Experimental Districts

Experimental Districts would have local application for selection. In other words, no one would be required to be in experimental schools. You would have to apply to be in an experimental school. There would not be difficulty finding one percent of the school districts in the United States to volunteer to be experimental schools, and frankly, it's a ploy. If you force a district to be an experimental school, then they can get angry and complain that they were forced to participate, and everything that had gone wrong was because of the experiment. However, if its voluntary, then you'll see that you eliminate a lot of the garbage in terms of people who would really not object to the experimental schools, but would like a scapegoat if something goes wrong.

I would have a combination of both local and national experimentation. What I would like to do is have a national experimental school system. Part of the mandate of the national experimental school system would be to fund state and local experimental ventures. In our national experimental school system, about one half of all the experiments attempted in those schools would be part of the national
program. But a quarter of it would be state, a quarter of it would be local, and all of that will be funded by the national experimental school system. In other words, if Lake Taylor High School became a national experimental school, then one quarter of its national funding would be for Lake Taylor to figure out its own experimental program.

	What would be included in having a combination of both local and national experimentation?	Answer Here
	The Norfolk Public Schools system (hypothetically) sends home a letter addressing the idea of becoming an experimental school district along with an application for the experimental schools. Only 45% of Norfolk's students send back a completed application for such a district. How would a combination of local and national experimentation be applied in this situation?	Answer Here