I know it's completely impossible to decouple things like money and economics from education but as someone who obtained a degree with a focus in education and also has over a decade of experience working with young students it really hurts me to know that our youth are starting off, usually, on the wrong foot because adults are always playing politics with education.

The way we define success. The ways we measure knowledge and success in students. The entire system from education on upward needs a good long looking at. Under our current way of doing things (I can only speak for the US) we've realized that throwing money at a problem is not the only solution but so long as delivering "results" is the metric by which grants and money is given to school districts we will always run into people stopping at nothing to meet the qualifications for such endowments.

It's a success if it works out. It's a calculated risk right now.