Gov Perry turns down Federal Education guidelines and 700 Million Bucks

Okay - he says he won't sign on for guidelines that haven't even been written yet. Fair enough.
Problem is, he's not doing anything to fix the education system in Texas. Our schools rank in the bottom 10%
nationwide consistently. There's a problem here. Our state leadership should quit playing games and govern, and by GOD solve it. We've had excuses for years - Political Party doesn't matter...the citizens keep getting excuses rather than results. So here's my plan. It's so simple and obvious that our governor, if he has any brains at all, will steal it and run with it and take credit for it. I don't care as long as he actually fixes the system. So here's what we do:

We're in the bottom 10% of states with respect to educational achievement, and we want to be in the top 10% instead. What we do is, we take a look at what the states in the top 10% are doing, and JUST DO THAT. If we do, we will find that either our students do better or we just have dumber kids. If we just have dumber kids, it probably means they are the genetic result of dumber parents. I personally suspect this will prove to be the case, 'cause there's a whole lotta dumb out there alrighty. But if it's not the case, then we fixed the system. I don't remember if it was Yogi Berra or Forrest Gump that said "You can see a lot just by watching", but that's true. Go see what works and then do it back home, Rick. Or Kay, Or Bill, Or whoever wins and wants to go for it.

Kinky Friedman was right. How hard can it be?
Duh