60% of the General Fund.  60% of Lottery Funds.  55% of my Property Taxes.  The Elliott Forest money.  The Common School Fund.

13th Nationwide in Teacher salaries.

Lot of "investing" for 46th Nationwide in graduation rates. 

Remedial English and Math required at LCC for those who do manage to graduate.

If my 401(k) investments produced those kinds of results,  I'd definitely fire whoever was in charge.  

But Union school teachers can't be fired unless they are actually convicted of a crime.

Sex abuse.  Drug possession.  

That's the only way you can get rid of a loser in K-12.

And all of their peers will line up and say "But s/he's such a good teacher!"