Comments on: Education Spending http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2005/06/education-spending/ Challenge The Status Quo Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:40:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Bill http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2005/06/education-spending/comment-page-1/#comment-21652 Bill Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:00:41 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/teaching/?p=62#comment-21652 Well stated. The real fraud of 'rankings' is that, irrespective of spending, someplace has to be 'dead last' as the NEA would put it. State by state avg. per pupil spending is $50K and CA is $49K? CA is 'dead last.' And, as you state that which the educrats refuse to note, spending does not equate to classroom performance. This is depressingly evident in the propensity of school boards to feather their own nests (new admin. buildings, ridiculous admin./teacher/student ratios) S.F. Board of Education wasted several tens of millions in bond issues supposedly for earthquake retrofits. Still not done after more than ten years but they've received their raises and new admin. facilities. And now they want yet another bond issue. The voters really must be products of that school system. -Bill Well stated. The real fraud of ‘rankings’ is that, irrespective of spending, someplace has to be ‘dead last’ as the NEA would put it. State by state avg. per pupil spending is $50K and CA is $49K? CA is ‘dead last.’

And, as you state that which the educrats refuse to note, spending does not equate to classroom performance. This is depressingly evident in the propensity of school boards to feather their own nests (new admin. buildings, ridiculous admin./teacher/student ratios)

S.F. Board of Education wasted several tens of millions in bond issues supposedly for earthquake retrofits. Still not done after more than ten years but they’ve received their raises and new admin. facilities. And now they want yet another bond issue. The voters really must be products of that school system.

-Bill

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