Blogger Briefing
Our blogger discussion this morning with the Lt. Governor left me with a nagging question: What does fully funded look like in education? The Lt. Governor talked about the record increases in public education funding in the state over the past two years and highlighted the nearly $600 million increase to occur this year. In total, education has seen an increase of 45%, according to the Lt. Gov’s numbers, yet all I hear and heard during the voucher debate was that education is “underfunded.” So my question to state office of education is what does fully funded look like? Please just give me a dollar figure. If it’s not $7,500 per pupil, what’s the number? The follow-up question is this…If we get public ed to fully funded, what are you committing to deliver for our investment? What can I hold you accountable for? And if you don’t live up to your end of the bargain, can we close you down and send our money to those schools who are now giving a better education for less?
