Colorado Judge Rips Republican Politicians, Hoover Institute Scholar in Final Failure to Fund Ruling
Wow. From Tim Hoover in the Denver Post:
A key witness for the state was Eric Hanushek, a scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, who testified that repeated studies have shown no consistent relationship between levels of funding and achievement. He also testified that average funding per pupil in the United States quadrupled from 1960 to 2007, while performance essentially stayed flat.
But Rappaport blistered Hanushek several times throughout her ruling.
“Dr. Hanushek’s analysis that there is not much relationship in Colorado between spending and achievement contradicts testimony and documentary evidence from dozens of well-respected educators in the state, defies logic and is statistically flawed,” the judge said, pointing to cases in
