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School Choice is great start to solving the education dilemma, but remember that it also has many inherent problems (or fails to address other issues): transportation, assignments for preferred schools, the guarantee of failing schools (the nature of competition), the time lag for constructing new buildings, the NEA maintaining power, the inclusion of private/religious/alternative/home schools, what to do with students who simply won't participate, etc.

Some more ideas:

home school,
inject more competition for teachers,
end the NEA's stranglehold,
eliminate the Dept. of Ed. (at the federal level at least),
END THE MARXIST COMPULSORY NATURE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLING,
end tenure rules,
make it easier to fire bad teachers,
eliminate the requirements for 'specialists'
eliminate the requirements for 'inclusion'
eliminate the requirements for accomodations for every new diagonsis that the psych industry invents on a bi-weekly basis,
rework the calendar to reflect a non-agricultural society (I work in a school surrounded in every direction by miles of corn fields),
start spending more time with your own kids to make sure that they know how important education is to you, to their future, and make it a daily part of your interaction with them.

(Keep in mind the ending a requirement does NOT mean eliminating the option!)

Now that we know what to do, let's get it done!!!