Ideally, schools need to replace equipment at least every four to five years, school technology directors agree.
Before you go to college, or send your child to a four year school, you better check their balance sheet.
Committing to a four year school with significant cost and the likelihood of student loan debt is not a decision that should be made lightly.
States must send assistance to the struggling schools, and if they fail to improve after five years, schools can be shut down and reopened with new management.
So back to the economics of four year schools.
Which in turn means that four year schools that refuse to LOWER their tuition are going to see their enrollment numbers decline.
After nearly two years, Schools Around the World has enlisted some 150 American teachers in 28 schools.
At the time of the Civil War the average American had attended school a total of 434 days little more than two years' schooling by today's standards.
Shanghai's maths score is the equivalent of three years' schooling above the OECD average.
Indeed in the last three years schools have seen a significant reduction in real terms in their budgets," said Mr Lightman.
Every two years schools are required to consult their school community on how it's taught.
