Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

I think good teachers are underpaid.

I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now its nascent.

Theres no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and thats allocated according to political muscle.