A seat at the table for teachers

There is a place in education that I call the "educational interface". It is the place where the system and the client interact. The most obvious example; a classroom.

There is considerable expertise and experience at work at the interface; primarily among teachers, but augmented by a significant number of professionals and paraprofessionals that spend all day, everyday trying to overcome the obstacles between our children and a decent education.

In Albuquerque alone, there are more than 70,000 years of teaching experience playing in classrooms every day.

Education has a future in New Mexico.
I would like to think, that future is being planned.

But by whom?

Traditionally, the planning is done by people who have no direct connection to any classroom. The highest positions are reserved for political pay offs, cronyism, or any one of a number of "isms" unrelated to an independent of, the skill set used to "teach".

They sit around a table and decide how and where billions of dollars and other resources will be spent. So far, unsuccessfully, according to any reasonable standard.

Teachers do not sit around that table, nor do educational assistants, nor do any of the other professionals and paraprofessionals that work with students every day.

How can that be justified?