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It stands to reason that making public schools earn their resources ensures that public-school students will be better served overall.

Responsibility and authority must never be seperated. That's another way of saying that you never blame someone for something they didn't have control over.
In the context of schools and other government agencies, money is authority--and nothing less than the possibility of loss of funding can constitute responsibility.
The Democratic Party exists to displace all responsibility onto the scapegoat known as "middle class white men". Naturally such a movement requires southern white male front men such as x42 to succeed electorally. It doesn't look like the Democratic Party has the ability to nominate a southern white male to head their ticket next year--and if not they will undoubtedly lose big.
All the Republican Party must do is stand proudly and adamantly for the middle class as a reality and a realizable universal aspiration against the rich. The Warren Buffet rich, the Pinch Saltzberg rich, and the Jesse Jackson pseudopoor rich.