Alternative alphabets have been kicking around for ages as a way to make it easier to learn English; mainly because our existing alphabet is inconsistent and doesn't have a 1-to-1 correspondence of letters to sounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet

Sequoyah famously brought the Cherokee from 0% to 90% literacy in a decade after he invented a syllabic writing system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah#Teaching_the_syllabar...

Literacy could be much easier if we switched orthography and now with technology everything can be auto-transliterated.