Friday, December 10, 2010

Still searching for that pot of gold « School Finance 101

Still searching for that pot of gold « School Finance 101

Still searching for that pot of gold

The rhetoric about our decades-long drunken spending spree just won’t stop, nor will the rhetoric that the money is all gone. All of it. Nothin’ left. We spent it all. We taxed ourselves to the limit and those damn teachers unions and public schools just took it all and left us with the bill. It’s gone! all gone!

Here are some recent quotes/comments from pundits who’ve done little analytically but to offer a few absurd back of the napkin explanations for why they believe that a) we’ve been on a drunken spending spree and b) it’s all gone!

Andy Rotherham in Time:

the golden age of school spending