“If we were serious about education, our discussion of education would not focus on demonizing teachers and devising radical schemes to undermine traditional public schools. It would instead focus on starting a new war on poverty and thus directly addressing the biggest education problem of all,” says David Sirota in the article “Poverty is America's No. 1 Education Problem.” Sirota says one way to improve the quality of the education system is to unionize schools. “Many of the high-performing public schools in America's affluent places are unionized. We also know that one of the best school systems in the world, the Finnish one, is fully unionized,” says Sirota. Poverty is the most relevant factor in determining the outcome of a person's educational journey and in Finland the child poverty rate is around 5%. In the United States the rate is almost five times higher. Unlike us, Finns calculate the poverty rate taking into account the government