Education is not expensive.  It costs nothing to learn, and next to nothing to teach children.  Our huge education expenses in this state (about a billion dollars) support a massive bureaucracy and do very little real education relative to the expense.  Our schools are so bad that about 10 percent of parents incur the burden of homeschool their kids rather than send them to be chewed up by that huge bureaucracy.  

Perhaps it was that poor schooling that leads one to say foolish things  like 1/3 live in poverty (about 10% live in poverty in AK), and that 1/3 of households make over 100K.