Isn't education just as important?

Billions for the bailout of Wall street. Why? They told us because it was too big to fail. It would have brought down our economy. What about public education? Isn't it too big to fail? Aren't we obligated to make sure that the children of this nation have every chance at getting a decent education?
The latest solution to budget shortfalls is to raise class sizes, thereby firing a new surplus of teachers. At LAUSD, we have been told it will be 29 to 1 in K-3 but with the added flexibility of adding 4 or 5 more before a school is awarded a new teacher, raising it to a possible 32 to 1 ratio. Jamming 29 to 32 five, six, seven, and eight year old children in a room with one teacher and expecting that teacher to reach every child every day in this modern classroom of fast paced, standards based, test driven curriculum is, quite bluntly, an insane proposition. Anyone who believes that it is possible to fulfill the needs of those 30 separate minds, has not been in a classroom in the last 10 years.
If we can find a way to spend billions to save companies that basically move money around, surely we can find the money to pay for the teachers who will teach the next generation how to move that money around better.