In today’s Wall Street Journal:

“More U.S. cities are considering scrapping a longstanding tradition in American education, the elected school board, and opting to let mayors rule over the classroom.

Dallas and Milwaukee are currently mulling mayoral control of the city’s schools, and Detroit is under pressure to try it — for the second time. A dozen major school systems, including New York, Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., already have a form of mayoral control.”

What will become of school boards? Is deferring oversight to the Executive a good thing? Is it no longer possible to find local representatives to serve as public guardians for the school district? What is wrong with the current system- the people or the structure?