I would suggest a national voucher program with the $ amount proportional to the taxes applied at the local level, then toll in the federal subsidies on top of that amount. This should more than compensate parents for a private school or funding for home schooling.
We'll have to annihilate the NEA and other educational associations at a political level quite some time before we can get this accomplished but it will happen as the exodus from the public schools continues and homeschooling and private school enrollment crescendo. Such liberal leaning associations will simply become insignificant.
Once the majority of children are provided with a meaningful education and rational thought process, the Democrats themselves will become insignificant..
Yakboy, I think you are spot on. It is just becoming too difficult to try and reeducate everyone out of the school system, particularly when they aren't even armed with the skills that it takes to think about issues critically. The answer then gets back to we have to do something to get children out of the grasp of the status quo in schools. I'm conflicted over vouchers because of the possible government involvment in homeschooling and private schools, but there has to be a way.