Reply #2: I'll admit I haven't looked this over extensively, so I don't know the ups and downs.

[TheWraith]

On first glance though, it seems to me like a reasonable and rational idea. Different curricula might have made sense at a time when kids were going to stay close to home, go to work in the same factory or on the same farm, etcetera. But these days there's too much mobility and too much in common for it to really make that much of a difference. How different of a primary education do you need if you're going to school in California versus Nebraska? Why is it so different? And there's too much opportunity for states to bugger things up, which is no longer a problem that just affects them. If schools in Texas are turning out uneducated kids, those kids don't stay there, they go to Nevada, or Oregon, or Virginia, or elsewhere.