Even most Republicans would agree with the following statement: "Schools in America are underfunded."
Point is, it's not going to change.
We're just going to keep throwing more and more money at teh schools, because that's what Government does.
Government fails on purpose, so it can justify ever increasing budgets and bureaucracy.
The NEA says the teachers are the best. They say we need to spend more money to get better acheivement. Each year they push for bigger budgets, to be spent by giving existing teachers big raises.
Well, if the teachers are the best, and we assume they are doing their best job, how does paying them more help the kids learn? Shouldn't the extra money be spent on other things?
If, on the other hand, they are saying that better salaries would attract better teachers, then the NEA is saying that our children aren't learning because the current crop of teachers is incompetent, and we should fire them and hire better teachers (paying THEM the higher salaries).
So, NEA, which is it? Are you just greedy and want more money for your members, or are you lying to protect bad teachers?
The "big lie" of bureacracy - no bureacrat wants to put themselves out of a job by solving the problem they're hired to fix.