improve on what we have...not prison schools, but thanks for the laugh. Anyway you cut it YOU WILL NEED government to assure the rich and poor alike can get a basic education.
The poor need the government to eat too as it stands, this doesn't mean it's the best solution, it's just the one we have tried. The poor need the government to eat, heat their homes, have shelter, clothing etc etc. I have a feeling this is exactly the way some like it. Both the caretakers and the takees.
Our education system is failing, we used to be top top overall, what are we now? 20 something? Unacceptable. The liberal answer is, always was, and always will be, take mo money from the rich (which invariably ends up as taking more from the "not rich").