Imagine a world in which all schools in all districts in all communities in Arkansas are the same. Identical academic standards, identical standards for accreditation, and identical assessments. Carbon copies. None better, none worse, because any variation of method or results will not be tolerated.

No more magnet schools. No more academies. No more conversion charter schools. No more open-enrollment public charter schools. No more community schools. No more virtual schools. No more blended learning schools. No more alternative schools. No more specialty schools. No more special-needs schools.

They may still exist, but in name only, as the uniqueness of each model will be gutted by the heavy hand of those who benefit from the central government control of education.

Oh, and no more waivers, as our state's highest-performing schools, which have earned greater autonomy, will be relegated to the same micro-managed oversight as the dysfunctional schools the state has been forced to take over.

For that matter, all Arkansas schools will........

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