Is it the “New Normal” or the “New Stupid?”
I’ll admit from the start that I’m recycling some arguments here (okay… all of the arguments) … but this stuff needs to be reinforced, over and over again. Quite honestly, to me, from a school finance perspective, this is the most important issue that has surfaced in the past year, and potentially the most dangerous and damaging for the future of American public education.
Robert Reich of Berkeley recently wrote of the Attack on American Education:
http://wallstreetpit.com/54502-the-attack-on-american-education
Specifically, Reich pointed to substantial budget cuts across states as evidence of our de-investment in public schooling. Here are the first three states (by alphabetical order), and the education spending cuts mentioned by