There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.
I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.
I think good teachers are underpaid.
I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.
I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached.
Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.
I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight.
If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.