What are some solutions to the funding inequality in the CA public school system?

Question

What are some solutions to the funding inequality in the CA public school system?

Answer 1

A good start would be to abandon football programs.  California pours hundreds of millions into these high-school programs annually, and they produce the most academically underperforming athletic group in modern schools.  Where track runners will average a 3.6 GPA, the average football player will be closer to a 2.1 in most CA schools.  For the few kids that will ever play college ball, pulling this funding could easily provide the quality educations that would secure at least as many academic scholarships.

Answer 2

Do away with all unnecessary programs, prevention, sports, and all other non-academics, and replace them with meaningful learning programs like skilled trades, and apprenticeship programs.

Privatize; bring in some competition so the services like providing an education will actually improve.

This should not only happen in CA, but all across the nation.

Answer 3

in theory the no child left behind program is supposed to do that

if Marin county has more $$$ per student from local funding and much higher stanford scores than say Oakland, then the Fed should be subsizidzing Oakland and not Marin.

In theory Marin is more than doing its job so the Bush plan should be helping Oakland reach that same level

Answer 4

Well considering this is the home school page. My answer is to get rid of the public school system. They forgot how to educate our kids so why do we send them there in the first place?