> Isn't this policy a federal intervention? If school funding is an issue, why not increase it at state or local level? Yes, why not? However, as a federal int

> Isn't this policy a federal intervention? If school funding is an issue, why not increase it at state or local level? Yes, why not? However, as a federal intervention - it was not designed to work. > You fogot to mention getting rid of teacher unions and starting evaluation of teacher performance. The idea of teacher tenure is simply insane! Evidence contradict your claim. Finland has strong teacher unions. And the measures I mentioned are largely orthogonal to teacher unions.