How much education funding should go directly to classrooms? A ’65 percent solution’ is picking up steam in some states.

Patrick Byrne, of Overstock.com, is one of America’s young philosopher CEOs and a man with eccentric ideas: The Stanford-educated executive has biked cross country four times, turned a flea-market supply company into a major Internet player, and founded Worldstock.com, aimed at eradicating global poverty.

One of Mr. Byrne’s latest groundbreaking ideas is how to tackle school funding reform. "The public debate over school spending is typically over more or less," he says. "The real debate should be: What are we spending it on?"

By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

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