Imagine a place that is abundant in natural resources, lets say oil, and the intelligent and forward thinking government of this place wants  to insure that they protect the interests of the citizens who own this resource when selling this resource to private for-profit corporations.
The state understand that by managing these resources and selling them at a fair market price to the for-profit corporations they can provide  a WORLD CLASS EDUCATION SYSTEM. 
Now imagine a place that has this same resource but its government is corrupted with the ideology that  a for-profit corporations right to larger profits TRUMPS the rights of its citizens to receive a fair market price for the resource they own. This government is also burdened with the insane belief that if the STATE were to provide an education for its citizens that democracy would die.  This government is run by capitalists who value profits above all else. ALASKA. Lets fire some teachers. long live the corporation godbless merca