Jay P. Greene discusses education funding in NRO today.

The hard reality is that we spend a large amount of money on education and have every reason to expect something in return. We spend considerably less on national defense and yet reasonably expect our armed forces to protect all of our lives and fortunes from foreign dangers. And the armed forces do this difficult job without soliciting donations and without an army of apologists blaming their shortcoming on a lack of funds. It will be nice when educators adopt a similar "can-do" attitude.

Knowing people that work in public schools, I know that there are a large number of teachers without this type of attitude and simply have an entitlement mentality. I think part of the problem will never be solved short of eliminating the tenure system.