Education: A Global Problem. What Problems in Education Do You See in Your Country?

Hey everyone, salam alay-khum,
My name is Dina, and I'm the student represenative of my city's school board of education. I represent every Portland student on the school board. I got involved in education through Global Citizen Corps--After I read Three Cups of Tea and Half the Sky, I realized that education can truly change the world. Education is the key to eradicating poverty, women oppression, HIV/AIDS, etc. I used to only advocate for education on a global level, but I didn't realize the disparity of education in the US until this year. There is a large achievement gap between the rich and poor, black and white, in the US, and it's going unadressed. This aspired me to run for the school board, to help turn this around.
In the United States, our "innerc-city" schools are the least-funded, poorest schools in the country because they have the largest concentration of impoverished students. Where you live determines where you go to school--So students, unfortunately, predominantly minorities, who live in low-income areas, go to low-income schools, which turns out the lowest graduation rates. One solution to this problem was to expand attendance boundaries so that middle-high income students would have to attend these schools. Our schools are more segregated than anywhere because of this. White students who do live in attendance boundaries to schools with a high-concentration of impoverished students choose to go to private schools, which means schools are more black and poor than they've ever been.
We're in the 21st century, the US has the largest economy, and we're supposedly one of the most "developed" nations. But our education is next-to-last out of a list of 30 developed countries. We also fund our education the least. The US doesn't care to fund education anymore--Instead we pay trillion dollars worth of Bush cuts, and trillions dollars worth of a war, but the government won't even pass a bill to increase education funding by 10 billion dollars. I believe there's not only a correlation between poor education and poverty (hence the achievement gap), but also between the US, its deficits, its growing segregation, Islamophobia, Tea Partiers, lack of Universal Healthcare, etc. The world suffers when Americans doesn't fund education.
This is just some of America's problem with educations--I can go on, and on. But I want to know the problems you see in your school, and in education in general in your countries.