It’s time to cut funding for the public schools and put the teachers union back a step or two. And if funding is cut property taxes should be cut as well. Don’t give the money to politicians to piss away.
I'm not sure that cutting funding - in and of itself - is the answer. I would favor a much more targeted approach to funding, especially on the local side.
Just spitballing here, but maybe something like this:
First of all, let's shitcan the Department of Education. I have never been convinced that the feds have ever been able to do anything except screw things up.
Once that's done,
Congress needs to allocate funding based on the number of students projected, with future disbursements reflective of gains/losses in the student population. IOW, if you lose students, you lose funding.
Here's where it gets a little interesting:
Of that funding, no more than 20% of each student's allocation goes toward administration, infrastructure, stuff other than what it actually costs to educate a student -- that being teacher salaries fundamentally.
Once you start targeting school board administrators/presidents and other bureaucrats, you'll see a bigger bang for the buck. They've been lining their own pockets for a very, very long time.
