That's the problem with equity; which tries to force equal outcomes. That's a goal that can never be reached, and so ever greater shares of wealth are consumed

That's the problem with equity; which tries to force equal outcomes. That's a goal that can never be reached, and so ever greater shares of wealth are consumed in pursuit of it. Eventually it will consume too much, and we'll have very hard choices we'd have to make. My vote: get government out of running education. I'm sure without all the permitting and licensing and restrictions on who can run a school, more and more varied ones would be made. $100k/year for a student is 2x the average salary, as someone noted, so people will be interested in providing the service. Competitors would fill that gap, and often better, for less. Also, the number of administrators for education has increased dramatically too, so I'm not sure where 'cuts' even happened. My sister (a teacher) says there are more 'life coaches' and other bogus roles these days, that just wonder the halls talking to students and making suggestions that essentially make more work for the teachers. It's absurd the level of waste. Not to mention you can go to several neighborhoods, even in 'richer' areas, and the newest nicest buildings are for schools (and sometimes just an admin building for a school district), while the neighborhood around that building has many homes that seem to be run down or old. It's ridiculous. I really haven't seen actual cuts in schooling anywhere. Hopefully that'll change, it needs to. Education is such a bubble.