Watch Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim’s “Waiting for Superman” to see the sorry state of America’s school system. One answer is to dismiss 1,000 of the country’s worst teachers freeing our great teachers to build on what’s been learned instead of being stuck teaching students what they should’ve already mastered.

But teacher unions have strongly resisted firing failing, sub-standard teachers and squashed any attempt to pay for performance — rewarding the best teachers with higher salaries. Instead, the unions keep campaigning for more money. With an exploding deficit at the national and state levels, the funds aren’t there.

As the administration loves to say, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” Improving the Department of Education is for wimps. Abolish it. Give it the old heave-ho; force it to walk the plank. It’s broken, and it’s wasting money our government doesn’t have while limiting the future of our young people.