@cptofthehouse “Virginia, your state, has a great model for the way public schools should work. Too bad most of the other states do not.”
I’m not sure I understand this at all. UVA gets about 10% of their funding from the state government. They have an unusually large endowment for a public school, and of course have various other income streams - federal research grants, alumni and business donations, commercialization and licensing of their research and inventions, etc.
Are you saying that other schools should work almost entirely without state funding in their budgets? Are you saying that other schools can work this way? If UVA isn’t unique, they are certainly unusual - and you need the long history and the endowment and the prestige in place before you can completely shift your funding that way.