I take it you're reasoning the sensible take a breather appraoch and look into the matter further, don't go extending this program yet until the flaws are apparent.

And yes, just throwing money at anything won't do much good, but that's not a very good argument. It would eliminate all forms of investment everywhere. I think everyone agrees that when someone says: "better spent in improving" he doesn't mean just funnel a wad of cash that way. He probably means that the money would be used to ... improve. As in make it better than it previously was. The exception to this would be that you think there is no possible way to improve public schools, so any effort would be a waste. But that would mean that previous attempts have in your opinion done the best they could have done, without any results.

That'd be a bold statement.