De-unionize the schools and you could start firing the bad teachers, give hefty raises to the good ones and you'd see education improve and we could still cut how much we spend on education.

Free market capitalism and Adam Smith's invisible hand work everywhere they are tried. So I say give the money to the students not the schools and let THEM pick what privately run school they want to go to and eliminate the entire education bureaucracy completely (huge savings there)

Many years ago my wife was a graphic designer for the Language Arts Department of the Wichita Public Schools (was one of her first jobs out of college) ... most of her short time there was spent putting together an office cook book (at taxpayer expense). Her boss made 6 figures (in the early 1980s) and basically did nothing but manage a meeting of teachers for two weeks in the summer to discuss changes in the Language Arts Curriculum.

MOST of public education is a waste. MOST of government is a waste.