ACIN:

You need a wider range of people than just the parents of school aged children to start with.

Getting the public at large to understand the importance of education and becoming involved is what you want.

In quite a few areas large employers have gotten involved, which is a start.

I don’t know that passing laws would help much. One of those people meeting with a board member and persuading them is all it takes to bypass such things and you can’t have them fallowed, nor would you want to.

Textbooks themselves are a problem. Many are just bad, most are biased one way or the other. But they are way overpriced and with frequent new editions, mainly for the money with few changes. Often they are not reviewed and taken on recommendation sight unseen. If they were not so expensive it would be better to allow course teaches to chose their own texts but it is a big money industry and you might find more corruption at various levels than you would even imagine.