Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Education Legislature punts on school funding
Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:55 PM
It's official. A joint legislative committee isn't ready to put a price tag on what educational adequacy will cost in fiscal 2011-12. More study is required, at least until some time after the November election.
I think it is possible to argue that certainty about inflation indexes and revenue is elusive these days. But ... adequacy remains a legal term that, in theory, isn't adjustable to economic fortunes.
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Which little mouse is gonna sneak upon the cat and tie a bell around its neck?
Timing is everything. Make a needed tax increase OFFICIAL, like appoint a blue ribbon committee to recommend ways and means which means...shoving it up the little folks collective arses in some way that doesn't cause too much groaning. Naturally a few right-of-center dignitaries should be on the blue ribbon committee.
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As I noted yesterday on the same question, it looks like an old school technique called "curve fitting" is going on. Nobody wants to go into the general election even suggesting that it may take more money to meet the court orders.
So like the speed of light or the speed of sound or orbital velocity, precisely what number in dollars represents "adequacy"? It may be a legal term, but it is not a mathematical or physical constant. It is not specifically objective. That, in fact, is the problem with it as a legal term because the courts can't define it either.
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