Here's my plan:

-Make secondary education non-compulsory. One of the big problems with it is that it's a prison-like environment and it feels like it. I say let kids go out into the real world if they don't wanna be in school, learn that it's not so easy without education, and come back more willing to put in an effort.

-Provide vouchers for private schools (with restrictions, mind you, I don't want Uncle Sam to be paying for catholic schools or madrassas). Competition works, and private providers may even have better solutions than public schools. Depending on cost effectiveness, it might be cheaper to shut down public schools and simply subsidize private ones.

-Centralize administration and funding of public schools. It's currently done by district and paid for out of land taxes, so schools in Compton are much shittier than schools in Beverly Hills, for example.

-Break the teacher's union. Firing a teacher that isn't doing their job right is damn near impossible, and the money being extorted out of the government is not coming off an investor's pocket, it's coming off the taxpayer's pocket.

That's my 2 cents. Anyone got any other ideas?

-Dr House