Education Reforms

I’m pleased and encouraged to see the editors of The Times step forward and clearly state in your editorial that the key impediment to true educational reform in our state is “chronic structural problems, including bureaucratic inertia.”

We’re cheating our young people and endangering our future well-being by continuing to permit our school bureaucracies to divert precious tax dollars from the desperate, crowded, undersupplied schools.

Now is the time for the bureaucrats to step aside and allow the real education experts--those teachers and staff who work with kids every day--to utilize their experience and know-how to begin to reshape our school system. We must make the term “child-centered education” more than just an empty slogan.

BILL HUTTON, San Gabriel