With respect, the problem seems more to be the school districts, stating with Anchorage School District.

These bureaucratic behemoths are accountable to nobody for what they spend.

They are accountable to nobody for the inferior product they produce.

The seem much more concerned with politcal correctness than student liteacy.

Whatever tax money they want, they get.

ASD can afford a lobbyist, but not teachers.

Teachers, not administrators and managers, are tageted for layoffs.

Conversation with legislators is good, if one can find a lawmaker who is: (a) relatively uninfluenced by lobbyists, (b) remembers the difference between ruling, and representing, and (c) recognizes the value of a financial audit.