Opinion: How states can stretch the school dollar
Note: This piece originally appeared in the January 6th Education Gadfly. Love what you see? Sign up to receive the Gadfly in your inbox.
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?To cover the underfunded pension obligations to teachers and other public employees, cities and states have little choice but to divert money from what would otherwise be their operating budgets?education will get significantly shortchanged as we make up for past underfunding.?*
I wanted to flag an?Associated Press?piece?about Michelle Rhee and her new group, Students First.
The Washington Post's prescient economics columnist Robert Samuelson wonders if perhaps the American-schools-are-losing-ground-to-China-et-al panic isn't overblown, its premises mostly wrong. For one, ?economic competitiveness depends on more than good schools,?