As the sole answer to the problem? No. If I knew it would be an intermediary step to getting government completely out of education, then I'd support it, but looking at the track record of government spending, I'd say that's a bad idea.

I'm for one thing that the Republicans used to claim they were for in their "Contract with America" and that is abolishing the Dept. of Education

In the final equation, I'm for separation of school and state. The government screws up everything it does, and schools are no different. Get the government out of the equation and they'll improve immensely.

Another article for your reading pleasure:

http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/wua3.shtml

"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year... It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
- Albert Einstein

This is the society that government schooling has left us with:

Americans Don't Read
"80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year."

http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html

But you can bet most can tell you the latest on Paris Hilton or Reality TV.

No wonder we continuously lose freedoms in this country:

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer