You want to improve education ?
1. get the school boards and parents and principals out of the equation and give education back to the teachers.
2. you want education for the future? - Remind me again what we're doing in the bush.
3. Stop letting principals tell commencement audiences how wonderfully educated their seniors are.
4. Stop thinking schools can fix the lives and education of kids in substandard living conditions. 

We've spent 40 years in Alaska dumbing down standards and paying more for everything we still complain about. So the chairman of this group says "we've come a long way - but we're not there yet". I suspect they will be saying the same thing until every last cent in the permanent fund has been spent on education.