Or for a TLDR recap. Teachers are paid ok, maybe a little underpaid.

School and education administration staffes are grossly overpaid and generally immune to layoffs.

It should be more set up like privately unionized work places.

For example at your big automakers, your average workes are unionized. The Plant managers and higher ups? Non-union contractors.

Once you stop teaching students and get promoted to assistant principal or another administration role, you should have to leave the union.

Also.  Teachers and schools quality differences are probably exaggerated.  With parent involvement being the real X factor.

http://www.livescience.com/23873-parent-involvement-more-important-than-school.html

The real way to improve child school performance may be to increase parent involvement.

there are a few things here that need to be noted.
The deficit really only started going down significantly in january to april 2013, many companies pushed forward revenue, dividends, stock buybacks, bonuses, anything that they could by april 2013 so they didn't have to pay the new tax rate effective tax year 2013.

Fanny and Freddie is giving the government money back because they are making money because the fed is manipulating interest rates and buying mortgage securities. These manipulated gains will turn into massive losses when interest rates rise.

US interest on debt was paid at the lowest rate it ever has been because the fed is manipulating the interest rate. This is not sustainable, interest rates will rise.

lastly the deficit is still very big and increasing for quickly. The article is only taking about percentages.

Hmm. It was a long read, but I found it interesting. It does indeed seem like the administration is the big problem. Splitting up the administrator and the teacher union into two seems like a reasonable soloution. After all, the administrators are not the ones teaching the kids.

From what I know of the Swedish school system, reducing the wage of techers is not a good idea. A few decades ago, teaching was a high-status profession in Sweden, and that was during the time when the school system was world-class. But now it's a low-status proffession, and the education system has suffered because of it.

Yeah, I wouldn't lower teacher pay.  I'd actually probably raise it a little and frontload it a bit more. 

  I'd slash the heck out of administrator pay and cut some administrators though.  Admin jobs should be more of a sidegrade.  Rather then promotion line for teachers.

We want to keep our best teachers teaching afterall.