Solutions?

What have people been doing to try to solve the problem of the broken education system? Below, I have a link to an article that describes the Race to the Top program which was authorized by Obama in 2009. The article goes into the details of the program and what its effects are, six years later.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education/report/2014/03/24/86197/four-years-later-are-race-to-the-top-states-on-track/