Spending more money is certainly not the only way to help the situation. The US already spends a large amount of money per student for elementary and secondary

Spending more money is certainly not the only way to help the situation. The US already spends a large amount of money per student for elementary and secondary education, and even more in post-secondary education...yet we are going nowhere. I would argue that spending the money that we currently have more efficiently is a better proposition, but government programs are going to be hard pressed to do something in an efficient manner.