The Problems of American Education Cannot Be Solved by Throwing More Money at Schools

In a NetRightDaily article, "Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth Out of Public Education?" Rebekah Rast writes:

If you find an investment no longer meets your needs, you quit investing in it and find a worthy substitution.

That is exactly what is happening within the public school system. Taxpayers are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with their return on their public school education investment, so they are finding other solutions.

A recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 72 percent of taxpayers say they are not getting their money’s worth from public schools. How much money are they referring to? Well, the nation as a whole spends about $9,000 per student on the public education system. Of course that number varies state by state.

But what’s more interesting from the poll is that only one in three voters thought that sending more money towards the education system would aid student performance....