Get rid of the NEA for starters and getting the left to understand that no matter how much money you pump into the system, things will not change until things change at home! If you send an ignorant, undisciplined kid to school at 8, an ignorant, undisciplined kid will come home at 3:30. E.g. Washington D.C. spends more money per child than any school district in the nation and they constantly finish last in test scores!
