It is an age old debate in this country: how to improve the state of education for our children. Year after year, test scores decline and pundits wonder what the problem is. While it is unlikely to be a nationwide consensus anytime soon, one of the important factors cannot be denied. Schools need money to operate, to bring in quality teachers, and to provide the right equipment and accessories for students to learn. Without the proper funding, schools flounder and the students are punished by factors outside of their control. While the power for parents to choose where their children go to school is something many politicians and parents would like to see, this cannot happen while shorting access and money to those schools that are disadvantages due to their location or other factors.What many refuse to see is that there still exists a certain type of segregation in today's public school system. Not forced by any means, this segregation is entirely due to zoning practices. Because of this zoning, the poor children wind up in one school while the better off children are sent to another one. The well off children do better in school due to a host .. more»