‘Tis the season for New Year’s resolutions. If you’re a lawmaker, reforming education should be at the top of your list—but not in the way you might think.

Education reform often plays second fiddle to “bigger” policy issues voters say they care more about. For instance, education finished behind the economy, terrorism, foreign policy, healthcare, gun policy, immigration, and social security in Pew Research’s poll of the top voting issues in the 2016 election.