Basic mistake, Elise.  Amount of money spent on education does not necessarily correlate to improved performance.  In this state, it works opposite - the more money spent in the government schools, the worse the product gets.  The homeschoolers get the best results with smallest per student expenditure.  Private schools spend around half per student what the government schools get and also get better results.  

Best of all, the education world is changing rapidly, with online instruction, canned courses, VR and AI (thank the gamers for those technologies).  Support for the teacher's unions is not necessarily support for education.  Worst of all, the feminists have turned the government schools at all levels into toxic environments for boys.  

As usual, the solution is to put the control of education money as close to the student as possible.  This means vouchers in the hands of parents.  Thanks for making my case for me.  Cheers -