I know this probably won't be a popular comment, but during all my teaching years, it wasn't money which made for a good education. I was lucky enough as a child to attend excellent State schools. They were excellent because of the teaching standards and the superb skills of the staff, not because they were equipped with all the latest stuff. On the other side of the fence as a teacher, I needed only a bit of chalk, a blackboard (gasps of horror) and enough GOOD textbooks for 'one between two'. The school I recently visited had innumerable computers, interactive whiteboards, photocopied bits of paper everywhere etc etc, and looking at the exercise books one would imagine the class comprised a selection of intellectually challenged apes. It's good teachers that produce well-educated students, not hardware, software or digital doodahs.