Education is not an expense, it is an investment. In today’s world of instant information, we hear more about cutting programs, closing schools, or contracting services and less and less about student achievement and success. In this country we have maintained the belief that every child deserves the same quality education as the kid next door or in the next town or in the next state — irrelevant of creed, color, sex, religion or disability. This belief has caused us to change our public schools to the point that most adults don’t understand what is going on in our public …