Claiming lack of funding is the "answer" to why public education falls short ignores a variety of issues. Public education employs a rigid, inflexible curricul

Claiming lack of funding is the "answer" to why public education falls short ignores a variety of issues. Public education employs a rigid, inflexible curriculum focused on large scale standardization. Teachers unions ensure there are no performance evaluations for teachers; the only relevant metric is tenure. Teaching performance is dissociated from reward. Teachers also have expensive long term pensions which drag down balance sheets and create demands for even more funding. Private school is able to avoid many of these issues, and charter schools are attempting to expand that model with government funding, although not without heady resistance from entrenched interests.