Principals: Improve Quality by Reducing Qualifications?

Principals: Improve Quality by Reducing Qualifications? - "Washington State and South Carolina have recently proposed alternative paths to the principalship. Apparently education is the only profession that believes that it can increase the quality of those working in the profession, teachers and administrators, by reducing the minimum qualifications to enter. Actually, education professionals are not making such ludicrous recommendations, because unlike most professions, education is not controlled by practicing professionals. Education is controlled by legislatures, state departments of education, and a few high-profile foundations!"