Why does the Post Dispatch Want More Funding for Education?
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| Where is education funding going? To schools or bureaucrats? |
There is an editorial in the St. Louis Post Dispatch this morning bemoaning the lack of money for education. Here is an excerpt:
When St. Louis businessman Dave Spence, the Republican candidate for governor, visited the Post-Dispatch editorial board last month, he clearly had done his homework in one key area.
For months, this page has been arguing that Missouri's incredibly low rankings in terms of education funding are at the root of many of the state's ills, not the least of which is a moribund economy.
The numbers tell the story. Various rankings put the state among the lowest in the nation, somewhere
