<p>Throwing $$ at the public school system won't fix it; the extra $$ will just increse corruption. There needs to be reform in the actual eduaction of students and therefore the teacher's unions need to be weakened because in some states the teacher's union is way too powerful and this allows incompetent eduactors to stay within the system. At the local level, school systems have to stop wasting money on frivolous items such as $900,000 megatron scoreboards (a school in Texas did this) and expensive football fields and punish school administators who abuse the money . Some of the money saved should be diverted to other sports programs (soccer, field hockey, lacrosse) and the remainder to improving facilites (computer labs, desks, ece, after-school tutoring) and creating school-based programs for children so they don't have to be on the street ibefore parents come home or sit around and do nothing for their minds. Most importantly, parents in destitute school districts must become more involved with the education of their children at all stages (infancy, pre-school, elementry, etc.) because the parents will have the largest influence on children.</p>
<p>Sorry about the length of this.</p>