At least a third of the tenured union teachers should be pink-slipped to save money, and about half the administrative staff should be laid off, as well.
In the good old days, when students graduated and could read, write and do math, there were 30-40 students per class. Before the scoring was dumbed down, legitimate SAT scores peaked in 1964. Taxpayers are getting shafted by the education industry. Any other monopoly producing such an inferior product would have been broken up long ago.
I graduated from high school in Northern California in 1958. At that time, California schools were first in the nation and my high school prided itself in having the highest percentage of it’s graduates going on to Cal and Stanford, How far we have fallen!