[rodguy911]

For sure from cradle to grave its one of our biggest problems. How to take back our children’s education.I would start with the money,tie lots of strings to it or they don’t get it.Should work.We need hard standards for every grade, they should learn so much or the teachers don’t get more money they get less.Better teacher get more.Of curse the first thing we need to do is get rid of the unions. They don’t belong in education or government.

[bray]

We need to find some conservatives willing to run for school boards and really make a difference.

[goodnesswins]

Maybe it’s time for “education “ to go back to READING, WRITING & ARITHMETIC. ..plus REAL HISTORY & CIVICS???

[Bernard]

The problem with defunding education is that so much of it comes locally; real estate taxes in Illinois is usually 655-60% local school district.

Now federally, Congress could do a "share the pain" program by requiring that any defaulted college debt comes 60% from the college endowment funds and no more than 40% from the magic national debt tree. Along with that, have a "share the share the pain" tax on major league investment houses like Harvard ($40 Billion with a B endowments) to fund the above-mentioned tax for smaller less fortunate schools that don't have major endowments.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Better teacher get more.

Merit based pay.

Of course the first thing we need to do is get rid of the unions.

And the DOE....kill it.