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Friday, February 25, 2005


Education: Beware Comparisons of Numbers on Spending.
It's not unusual to hear in state X "We need to spend more on education because X is below the national average in spending numbers."

Some in California have come to that conclusion, but the Pacific Research Institute offers some reasons why that's not necessarily a problem.

The data sets used across states may not be comparable, for one thing. Some states allocate money to different funds, so the total money spent on a goal is not captured in the statistics. For example, $740 million in teacher training money spent by California governments do not show up in figures compiled by the National Education Association (NEA).

The state's Legislative Analyst?s Office, quoted by the Institute, has the priorities right: a state "should be concerned more with how its students perform rather than on how state spending compares with other states."
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"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'’s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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