You can come up with all sorts of 6 point, 10 point , 153 point plans, whatever, but the underlying problem is someone else’s money spent on someone else. It should be obvious to the casual observer by now that the more government money spent on education the worse it’s getting! The solution is simple: get government out of the education business. Seperation of School and State is an idea whose time has come!
It's not the government (mainly), it's the false fixed belief, held by almost everyone, that "education" is something that's done TO you, like getting a shot of penicillin, rather than something that YOU DO.
You can train small children, and you probably should, to read, write, and do sums.
But after grade six, and certainly after grade 8, there are doers and non-doers.
Our "system" is essentially a prison-like nationwide enterprise to manage the non-doers, hoping something good happens.
It's like a cargo cult.
My first roommate in medical school dropped out after it became clear that he lacked sufficient reading skill to get past the first two weeks. Think about that.
The people who gave him an elementary school certificate, a high school diploma, a university degree (with honors) and sent him off with a party to celebrate a new future doctor were like cargo cultists in the Solomon Islands after WW II, building control towers in the belief that the airplanes full of goods would return.
It's not about diplomas and degrees. It's about what smart and focused individuals can accomplish under the right circumstances.
There are great schools that produce well-educated men in Quonset huts in Africa, just with a teacher and a few books and writing tablets. But those schools do not aspire to educate the unable and the unwilling.
75% of high school students don't belong there. 90% of college students don't belong there.
Fix that, the rest will quickly fall into place. Don't fix it, and it does not matter who pays for school or how, the result will remain what we have now.