Why I'm skeptical about school finance 'reforms'

Jo Egelhoff:

Something's not right about this school funding reform stuff. State Superintendent Tony Evers last month introduced "Fair Funding for Our Future," which is supposed to "make it fairer for districts [and] provide them with more financial stability"

... so that every Wisconsin child can graduate ready to succeed in further education and the workplace....Fair, sustainable, and transparent funding also requires education leaders at all levels to commit to investing taxpayer dollars in programs that show results.

Evers - and many others - seem to be honing in on the bucks when it's much more critically important to hone in on that "showing results" part.

Heritage does great work on countering the "Education Spending Fallacy," i.e., that more money means better performance. The latest piece countered Paul Krugman's plea to throw more money at the system.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 8, 2010 5:55 AM
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