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There should be 1 class for computer and tech. The rest of school can be done with pencil, paper, and a ruler.
Districts should stop playing the marketing game and spend money repairing buildings, buying up to date textbooks, and fucking paying teachers more.
Pay teachers more, free breakfast and lunch for every child. These two things are the only things that you can just throw money at to improve outcomes that can be replicated everywhere.
As a generalization, they don't need more money for textbooks, they don't need more tech, they don't need building upgrades, they don't need whatever the latest software scam is, etc.
If only... oregon pays teachers well, and does free breakfast and lunch. But the results don't line up. There is more to it. To me it looks like the administration is often pretty terrible. But my sample size for that is small.
Teacher to student ratios?
Yep, another thing that throwing money could solve. Imagine how much more attention students could get if classrooms maxed out at like 15. There's a reason expensive private schools advertise small classes.
Highly variable by district, and even school.