School Spending
No Recession for Schools
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School Spending
“The Cartel” in New Jersey
New Jersey is #1 in spending per public school student. Where does the money go, and why so much? The answers may be found in some of the bizarre and dismaying facts and stories recounted in a new education documentary entitled "The Cartel".
School Spending
Making Mountains Out of Molehills? Let the Reader Decide
A recent “Policy Memorandum” from the Economic Policy Institute by EPI researcher Monique Morrissey is sharply critical of our article “Peaks, Cliffs, and Valleys." Morrissey has a number of critiques of our articles, but the main one, as the title suggests, is that our metaphors are inappropriate, and there is nothing at all “peculiar” about the structure of retirement incentives in teacher pensions.
School Spending
A Little Context Needed for Complaints about School Revenue Shortfalls
The general public is woefully uninformed as to how much is spent on K-12 public education and, by extension, how much that spending has grown. Why would this be the case? No mystery, really.
School Spending
The coming crash in school revenue?
Everyone knows that school spending has been rising at a steady clip for just about forever. But is the Era of Big Spending coming to an end?
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