Is money the only solution?

This blog originally posted in June 2010.

$4.3 Billion for education financed with money from the economic-stimulus law passed last year. So far, Delaware will receive approximately $100 million and Tennessee $500 million to implement their comprehensive school reform plans over the next four years... 14% distributed, 86% left for the other 48 states to compete for... but is money really the only solution for our suffering school system? And, much of it is earmarked for more testing - this time for exit-type exams similar to those used in Europe. Many of our school systems are at the tipping point - students are fleeing to neighborhood home schools and private schools that attempt to guarantee both safety and an education. Some of these schools are run on a "shoestring" - what are they doing correct that many of our public schools cannot quite master? It's a conundrum... a continuing debate in search of a solution or a matrix of solutions.