I've read through about a third so far, and it's pretty interesting. I'm gonna email a link to all of my old high school teachers.
I feel the free market would solve this: if we had schools that neither the states nor the feds would interfere with, just a completely free market form of K-12 schooling where the schools can hire and fire teachers freely (firing an inept teacher is an incredibly long process that usually ends with getting sued), where the teachers can choose what text book to teach with, and with the state government providing you with a voucher to choose which school you wish to enroll in, for no cost.