Highly organized professionaleducators, sympathetic liberal legislators and a constituency of manipulable education consumers form a classic "iron triangle" that has proved impervious to reform.
The private sector will make inroads into education, which has become too important a business to leave to hidebound professionaleducators, bewildered by and uncomfortable with change.
Regular lamentations over new evidence that the system isn't working are met with stern demands from professionaleducators that the real issue be faced, namely the need to spend more money, mostly on them.