In Connecticut, Where There’s a Reformy Con, There’s a CAN!
I was intrigued a few days ago when I saw this headline in my news alerts regarding school funding.
Disclaimer: I am fully aware of this because I have been providing technical/expert assistance to local public school districts that have been persistently shortchanged by the state school finance formula (Education Cost Sharing Formula). That, and even prior to my involvement supporting these districts (and more importantly, the kids they serve) in Connecticut, I had already blogged on their plight.
So then, how can it possibly be that that a CT newspaper would print such a ridiculous headline? And where
Headline: Report: Funding helps low-performing school districtsI was particularly intrigued because the headline comes from a Connecticut newspaper where I am fully aware that the state really hasn’t done crap to substantively increase resources for low performing, or more specifically high need schools and districts.
Disclaimer: I am fully aware of this because I have been providing technical/expert assistance to local public school districts that have been persistently shortchanged by the state school finance formula (Education Cost Sharing Formula). That, and even prior to my involvement supporting these districts (and more importantly, the kids they serve) in Connecticut, I had already blogged on their plight.
So then, how can it possibly be that that a CT newspaper would print such a ridiculous headline? And where
School Finance Illiteracy Reaches New Low! (But it was the NY Post?)
Okay, it’s not entirely surprising to find mind-boggling ignorance conveyed in the editorial pages of the New York Post. Today’s example comes to us in an Op-Ed written in response to a report released by the Alliance for Quality Education.
Usually, I’d just let it pass. It’s the Post after all. But, for two important reasons I just had to address this one. First, the editorial was written by a member of the Governor’s Education Reform Commission. Second, the editorial made use of our School Funding Fairness report to make its most absurd claim. And here is that claim:
Usually, I’d just let it pass. It’s the Post after all. But, for two important reasons I just had to address this one. First, the editorial was written by a member of the Governor’s Education Reform Commission. Second, the editorial made use of our School Funding Fairness report to make its most absurd claim. And here is that claim:
Despite all of AQE’s complaints, there is no need to change the way we allocate this money, since the state already directs almost 70 percent of education funding to high-need districts. In fact, School Funding Fairness’s National Report Card gave New York a grade of “A” in its Effort category, putting us among the top five states in that category.