The truly poor would be eligable for low or zero interest loans from the state government to help pay their education expenses. Think of the way college loans work now (can't get out of them through bankrupcy, and you must start paying once the student is no longer in school).
It would be more painful up front for many families, but once they had paid for their children's education they'd be done. Unlike property taxes which never end.
" The truly poor would be eligable for low or zero interest loans from the state government to help pay their education expenses."
This is not fair to those not considered poor. I believe that education is a non-fiscal enterprise. There should be no difference between who makes what. Education has to be a common goal for the whole society. When one group or another gets an adavantage then we have problems.
Class warfare is not a good thing. Education is basic to a capitalist market. if only a few had a medical degree then they can go where they make the most money. We need not a monopoly but qty. The more people that can achieve greater education we all win.