I have never worked at a school of any kind, but I have worked in several different city, state, and federal jobs. Again, I cannot speak from personal experience in actual schools - but if the government jobs I have been exposed to are any model, I would say somehow privatize education. If by vouchers or other means, do it somehow.

Government entities in my experience are the most wasteful and ineffective organizations that I have ever seen. Couple that with the teachers unions and who is actually surprised that the education system gets worse every year?

No government agency would survive if it were a private company. The quality and quantity of work that it produces and for the huge sums of money that it costs/wastes - would cause it to go belly up in a matter of months.

There has got to be a better way.