I like your 'handle' of looking for solutions.  I wish everyone who made a complaint would also have to suggest a solution.  It is too easy to tear things down with no real alternatives put forward.  I do agree that money is not the only way to improve schools - but it is also not the wrong way.  More funding is just about the only way to make class sizes smaller.  (And anyone who says class sizes don't matter should try to substitute teach in an elementary classroom with 33 3rd graders and one teacher - not the home school dream scenario).  Local school districts, run by local school boards, determine how to spend the money from the state.  Every district has a budget committee that the public at large can serve on, to get a better understanding of and make decisions about school budgets.  I would encourage you to join a public school budget committee.  Or at least talk to a budget committee member to get their perspective about what real fiscal challenges school districts face.