The United States has comprehensively proven that you can spend truly ludicrous amounts of tax dollars and still get poor educational outcomes.
That being said, we’ve also comprehensively proven that “starve the beast” simply does not work. Defunding economically inefficient programs does not make them better, and it pretty much always takes investment upfront to improve or optimize return on investment.
Some researcher said something to the effect that good schools need reliable income, involved parents, motivated teachers, and charismatic principals, and no part of that set can be missing. I’ve often been astounded by how much influence over educational outcomes the principal has; I’ve seen a school change literally overnight when the principal changed.
I guess that was a long winded way of agreeing with you 100%.
